palazzo Tiglio, Tuscany

HELENE SCHMITZ 

The Island & Studies in Falling

If Tuscany is on your radar this summer, don't miss Helene Schmitz's exhibition at Chiesa di San Rocco in the small village of San Pancrazio, Bucine. Chiesa di San Rocco is the oldest religious building in San Pancrazio, built in the 13th century. The exhibition will feature select works from the series The Island (2024) and Studies in Falling (2023).

Through her photography, Helene Schmitz explores humanity's complicated relationship to nature and the elements, to time and transience. More recently, she has studied how human activities inscribe themselves in the contemporary landscape.

Across Europe, the sea is encroaching on nearly a fifth of the coastline, eating away landfills, stripping sand from beaches, and threatening coastal communities with rising sea levels and erosion. For Studies in Falling, Helene Schmitz travelled along the Danish coast and photographed locations where limestone exists in the bedrock, as well as the structures and places where limestone, or calcium carbonate, is transformed into cement. 

I see photography as a way of 

dealing with time and transience,

which is a fundamental theme in my images. 

— Helene Schmitz

When   4 June - 26 July 2026
Where  Chiesa di San Rocco, San Pancrazio, Bucine