Saint Covid - 19

I try to give the pandemic and the quarantine an explanation by looking at the archive of my cell phone today, while in Italy as in many countries in the world, policies of social distancing are imposed on the population to deal with the emergency COVID-19. Perhaps, the images of my smartphone, always have been isolated, as in quarantine, far from each other and instead, now they lose their objectivity, to fall into another category, linked to the irrational and the Faith. They show themselves as a window on a “prophecy”. Everything becomes a simulacrum that emerges to shape hope. Medical research, scientific material, man and his very presence become sacred. Useful to fill my obsession and that of anyone who is experiencing this unexpected transformation. We are witnessing a global transformation with undefined outlines where any certainty, space becomes vain. Something mocking overturns everyday life and we are fleeing to our homes, the streets are empty of life and the new daily life is the distance, the abstention from physical contacts between humans seems to take revenge on what until yesterday we considered normal. Meanwhile, the invisible shadow follows us and the insulation is ironically the only form of protection. In this historical moment, I offer an image of myself and Italy of lost and strong, where each gesture takes on a new meaning, where we are all united by the new Sacred guest and without certainties we try to give voice to our lives despite the hard blow inflicted by the new Master.

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                                                                                       april'20