Tag: art
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Roma, 2025
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When looking back at the places where I was born and grew up, current perceptions blur with images rising from memories. Everything reminds me that what I know of the external reality is nothing but perceptions and feelings whose causes are inside me no less than outside. Trying to give names and meanings to such…
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Melancholy Of The Ancient World
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Melancholy Of The Ancient World
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In this assay, the French philosopher leads us in a journey through images by great photographers such as Lewis Hines and Walker Evans, as well as through concepts elaborated by theorists such as Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin, to reach a surprising conclusion about the nature of photography. In his own words: “Photography […] is…
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Palermo, 2024
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An ancient sculpture of a wounded slave, probably a gladiator
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Metamorphosis is the way the human beings exist, never definitive in their shapes and always in search for significance in a rush towards the end. It is not possible to think of personal identity other than as the arbitrary, though necessary, meanings that everyone associates to that uninterrupted flow of images, words, memories, affections that…
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