Zoos are born with intent informative to know and understand animal breeds otherwise unattainable. I wonder today what sense the life of an animal that is born, grows and dies in a cage by the boundaries. Strange form of entertainment for humans or thin pretense of superiority? Whatever the motivation certainly does not justify the existence of these places where they are taught nothing but to desert the compassion that makes us human beings. Every day through media and advertising we are fueled by emotions fictitious performing their function purifying and giving complete solution to our real lives, but the rules of the game are understood and accepted by players and spectators: it is fiction. For none of these animals, the show will never end, under the eyes distracted by people walking through the cages with bars and glass, expecting to see an event, so it was worth to buy a ticket : Big Brother fee. Where the animal is missing or holed up to evade the human curiosity, here is the puppet that takes over, the cup, the granite statue of the animal that is representation. A representation in the representation: who is alive seems and who is fake seems alive.
Work consists of 40 diptychs.
Places: Berlin, Madrid, Zaragoza, Cordoba, Seville, Bergamo, Milan.
Born in Milan in 1972. Sara Munari lives and works in Lecco, Italy. She studied photography by Isfav in Padua, where she graduated as a professional photographer. Opens in 2001, THE STATION PHOTO, Studio and Gallery for photo exhibitions and courses. Professor of History of Photography at the Italian Institute of Photography in Milan and visual communication and photography technique at Isgmd of Lecco. Collaborate with the Catholic University of Milan for some publications. From 2005 to 2008 he was artistic director of Leccoimmagifestival for which organizes exhibitions of photography by great Italian and young photographers from all over Europe. Organize workshops with prominent authors on the national scene. Participate in 2008 to award S.Fedele. She exhibited in Italy and Europe in galleries and museums of contemporary art. It is part of the National photographic archives of Castellanza and the archive of Tor Vergata University in Rome. In 2009 she released his first book “Ocean India.” In 2011 tehe second “Non solo badanti”. She is portfolio reader’s in National Competitions and Festival. Gets awards at national level. She won the 2010 Prize Roberto del Carlo, LUCCAdigitalPHOTOfest. From 2011 she joined in La Presse Agency. Since 2011 she collaborated with Obiettivo Reporter. In 2012 she became director of the school of photojournalism Objective Reporter
