The Poetics of Absence: The Visionary World of Stefano Cerio Stefano Cerio, an Italian photographer and video artist born in 1962, possesses a singular ability to transform the mundane into the metaphysical. His artistic practice is defined by a haunting preoccupation with deserted amusement parks, waterparks, and tourist destinations—spaces that are, by design, built for the cacophony of human joy but captured by him in states of pro…