Still of the book 'Spazio/Tempo. Sedici Esperienze di quarantena, UBIF, 2020

Sixteen quarantine experiences.
Sixteen disobedient looks.
Sixteen wills to participate.
Sixteen needs to trespass.

Sixteen intentions to shape.
Sixteen creations from nothing.
Sixteen explorations of elsewhere.
Sixteen ways to get something out of oneself.

Sixteen horizons of the mind.
Sixteen spaces that become visible.
Sixteen souls on paper.
Sixteen people in dialogue.

Sixteen steps around the conflict.
Sixteen internal comparisons.
Sixteen shared trials.
Sixteen times of photography.

Still of the book 'Spazio/Tempo. Sedici Esperienze di quarantena' (Sacha Catalano), UBIF, 2020

© Sacha Catalano

Still of the book 'Spazio/Tempo. Sedici Esperienze di quarantena' (Sacha Catalano), UBIF, 2020

Sixteen relationships with oneself and with each other during a pandemic at the beginning of the millennium. A vocabulary made up of images. A field of possibilities, of gestures, signs, attempts, traces, glimpses, faces, surfaces. A set of extended instants, of moments torn from the illusion of the present, of sensations hanging by a thread, as subtle as their understanding. Of whispered voices, of barely pronounced figures, of gathered intimacy.

Each shot is a wish. A manifestation of life beyond the body. A carousel of memories each of which can be an echo of a past or an appointment with the future. What remains are fractions of time, pages of impressions, so real that they appear as if in a dream. And we seem to see them all together, to follow their colorful directions, to touch their nuances, to know their language. As in a stereoscopic vision that shows a different depth, wider.

Still of the book 'Spazio/Tempo. Sedici Esperienze di quarantena' (Michael Battocchio), UBIF, 2020

© Michael Battocchio

© Michael Battocchio

Still of the book 'Spazio/Tempo. Sedici Esperienze di quarantena' (Lara Bacchiega), UBIF, 2020

© Lara Bacchiega

Still of the book 'Spazio/Tempo. Sedici Esperienze di quarantena' (Lara Bacchiega), UBIF, 2020

And we realize that there is an earthly afterlife of which we are not fully aware. There everything is, regardless. Sixteen streets that intersect to give shape to something more. As if to transcend that comforting cage of free will. As if the meaning belonged only to a shared path. Will this different way of feeling the trail leading to life opposite to individualist confinement?

The pages of this “collective” volume are like footprints in a promised land. It is up to the reader to follow them or not. I think they should be seen like this, by suspending all paraphrases. Leafing through them slowly.

Still of the book 'Spazio/Tempo. Sedici Esperienze di quarantena' (Giacomo Streliotto), UBIF, 2020

© Giacomo Streliotto

© Giacomo Streliotto

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INFO ON THE BOOK

'Space / Time - Sixteen quarantine experiences' is published by the cultural association UBIF. The proceeds of this book have been used to support the association Donna Chiama Donna which fights against violence against women.