Quarantine
QUARANTINE
A global pandemic, caused by the Covid-19 virus, has forced us to be locked down. Our home, the place where we were free, ourselves, safe and away from the outside world, suddenly became a cage. In this series of Cinemagraphs I wanted to frame how I lived the isolation, looking for something in a past that today, deprived of everything, I feel a little more present.
06.04.2020
THE CAGE
I had to escape from the country where I was to return to my family, in Italy. The journey lasted 20 hours.
I was finally at home.
And I would have stayed there for long.
07.04.2020
BASIC NECESSITIES
We have been forced to go out only for necessity. So we only went out to buy food. I took this moment of solitude to also feed the mind. Those glasses belonged to my grandfather and they have seen so much famine, of body and mind.
15.04.2020
SELF-REFLECTIONS
Mirroring with loneliness, one faces the reflection of himself, about himself. And having the time to look in the mirror every day helped me to really see myself. That mirror reflected the young image of my grandmother, too tired to find herself.
11.05.2020
THE WAITING
That tablecloth belonged to my great-great-grandmother Anna, has been passed from generation to generation since 1850.
It gathered families around the table
and waited for the poor meal.
Today the wait is to start living again, miserably.
21.05.2020
OPEN AIR
We are finally free to move within our region, the shops are reopening and people are starting to meet again. My grandfather used to bring that flask of wine with him when he went to work in the fields, with that wicker basket which he made himself. Along the river, with his co-workers, they drank from it, all together. Sometimes I really think those were better times.
