It disappears slowly is a photographic ethic research with socio-anthropoligic basis, held between 2019 and 2021. Published by SelfSelf in September 2021, it consists, beyond photographies, of three reports narratives of the emerging writer Naomi Giudice, short texts written by each person represented and an afterword by the curator Mistura Allison. The burden that the stigma drags on is slow in dissolving. The society in which we live hopes for a perverse "normality", adhering to standards in continuous change and regurgitation with contempt shreds of humanity not conform. It establishes and imposes the social stigma that conditions being in the world proving to be a limit to our actions. One of the consequences is censorship, my research ground for more than one year; imposed by the institutions or by themselves, censorship unites us in different contexts of heretics, transmuting and hiding behind fears and hypocrisy.
Each image is born through an intimate and open story with every person involved, who actively participates in the creation of the portrait. As a particularly attentive and empathetic photographer and artist, it is my main interest not to take charge of the representation of a person solely according to my gaze, but create a visual narration shared in harmony by the parties involved. The urgency that drives my work in the artistic field is daughter of the contemporary need to seek union and strength in the entirety of all our individualities. The coexistence between the search for well-being and the fear of uncertainty are some of the issues that it was impossible not to address during my research. As well as the uncontrolled impetus of technology and the consequent search for freedom from it. The restitution by the minorities who have taken a voice, to combat any disparity. It disappears slowly was only a means to be able to shout out loud that every need and urgency has value and every person has the right to be seen and heard.
As an experience to support the book It disappears slowly, it was born simultaneously the website www.itdisappearsslowly.com edited by Chiara Lombardi and designed by Daniele Polacco and Simona Pastore, with the intention to transmit the content in a fully accessible multimedia.