Annachiara Lodi, TUTTI QUELLI CHE CADONO

Room 12
Invited by Marco Signorini

Humani nihil a me alienum puto.
A dozen discreet images can speak more than a long time. There is Amanda Knox, Bill Zeller, Aaron Lee Ralston, but no social denunciation or desire to morbidly intrigue the viewer.
It would seem that the sad gaze of Madre e sposa positions itself – suffering with/for – on the tragic and contradictory events of certain faces of the news, which only under this pressure reveal an unprecedented closeness to themselves. A gaze that would almost seem to understand the suffering of the smiling boy who has written to the world that he is too lonely to go on living, who cringes before the pain of our time, but at the same time has the courage to support it. But it would be an unwatchable end, without something else in his eyes.
Falls and relapses (such as that of the base jumper who, after being under a boulder for 127 hours and losing an arm, did not give up his practice); but the very freedom of looking at another’s lapidary denial of self, expressed in All’autore, makes us realise that causality does not exist, because if one can “die” from a crooked look, one can also be lucky enough to see someone who, although no longer there, today generates in the lives of those attached to him.

Annachiara Lodi was born in 1986 in Milano, where she lives and works.