“Imagine a Motel inhabited by psychopaths, windows opened on the Memory, where the characters are actors without theater, citizens without cities, orphans, slaves, outcasts, rejected, sick, murderers, criminals, thieves, prostitutes: Poets. Edgar every morning came up the stairs singing songs of love and then, in the evening, he devoted himself to death. Paulette was a delicate creature, she loved sewing and was a scissors collectionist. He committed suicide, in a beautiful spring day, on a cedar tree. Clarissa has always said that she would rather be born deaf. She wandered almost naked at night, through the city streets in search of a ring that she claimed to have lost when was a young girl. She worked as a prostitute for little money and though an alcoholic and smoker since the age of 13, died in her sleep at seventy-seven years, serenely. No one has ever managed to convince Kate that she was not really a Cat. Died hit by a car in broad daylight. The man who was driving the car that killed her is now a well-know exponent of the Association for the Protection of Abandoned Animals,he is married, has a wife, a lover, 3 daughters, 66 cats, 5 dogs and a dozen dwarf ostriches originating from Patagonia. Marla loved Edgar that loved Trevelyan (called by all The). She bought the same mask as her impossible lover to exchange hugs, but the man’s response was a fourth-degree burn, and from that day she said no more” – Francesco Viscuso
These and others are the stories that the project tells through a series of photographs printed on paper and hand-crafted, sanded, painted, torn, glued. The images, with a dreamlike and surreal flavor, exhibit ultimately a violent critique of the contemporary society that produces all kinds of aberrations and every small or large madness in all of us: the abyss of human loneliness in the era of capitalism.
EXHIBITION
Carnival Motel
February 10 – 28, 2014
Officine Fotografiche Roma
Via Giuseppe Libetta, 1
00154 Roma
Italy
