The FIAT Mirafiori Toilets (2025)
Viaindustriae Publishing
Foligno, Italy
May 2025
This book collects photographs taken by Pietro Perotti – a worker at the FIAT Mirafiori plant in Turin – who, beginning in 1985, created protest writings and drawings in the factory toilets to oppose the oppressive policies of the company and its boss, Gianni Agnelli. This personal yet widespread form of protest followed years of activism in class struggles and strikes during the previous decade.
Perotti systematically photographed the drawings and writings, secretly bringing a camera into the factory and timing each shutter release with the automated toilet flushes to muffle the sound of the click. His story begins at a precise moment — early 1985 — and in a specific place: the FIAT factory in Turin’s Mirafiori district. Assembled here for the first time, this volume presents a working-class narrative first scrawled and scribbled on the walls of the factory’s toilet cubicles, then documented on photographic paper.
Credits
Edited by: Davide Tidoni, Franco Berteni
Photographs: Pietro Perotti
Translations: Gabriel Popham
Publisher: Viaindustriae publishing, Foligno
In collaboration with Compulsive Archive, Milan
The FIAT Mirafiori Toilets (2025)
Viaindustriae Publishing
Foligno, Italy
May 2025
This book collects photographs taken by Pietro Perotti – a worker at the FIAT Mirafiori plant in Turin – who, beginning in 1985, created protest writings and drawings in the factory toilets to oppose the oppressive policies of the company and its boss, Gianni Agnelli. This personal yet widespread form of protest followed years of activism in class struggles and strikes during the previous decade.
Perotti systematically photographed the drawings and writings, secretly bringing a camera into the factory and timing each shutter release with the automated toilet flushes to muffle the sound of the click. His story begins at a precise moment — early 1985 — and in a specific place: the FIAT factory in Turin’s Mirafiori district. Assembled here for the first time, this volume presents a working-class narrative first scrawled and scribbled on the walls of the factory’s toilet cubicles, then documented on photographic paper.
Credits
Edited by: Davide Tidoni, Franco Berteni
Photographs: Pietro Perotti
Translations: Gabriel Popham
Publisher: Viaindustriae publishing, Foligno
In collaboration with Compulsive Archive, Milan
