{"id":3546,"date":"2024-05-16T11:21:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/works\/pandemic-story\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T17:05:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:05:29","slug":"pandemic-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/works\/pandemic-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic story"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715868125606{margin-right: 50px !important;}”]Four years have gone by. Almost no one talks about it anymore, except for a few Science popularizers. A silence that further accentuates the unpleasant sensation that all this happened an era ago.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the image documentation of the behavioral moments of that period is even more striking. Of the vision we had of our daily life, seized and shrunken inside the lockdowns<\/em>. A closure of body and soul.<\/p>\n

Here is the artist’s body. Which in the case of photography is to take it to where the emotion, the aesthetic movement of the soul (as I like to define photography) is expressed.<\/p>\n

Closed. Segregated for days in the same place. An attitude not suited to human nature in continuous, often incomprehensible walking. Hurried up to an apathetic production of local motions. The body I was saying, forced to remain there still for endless days.<\/p>\n

Photography, then, insinuates itself into the most intimate moments of our lives, otherwise considered devoid of detailed attention and investigation: opening a window in the morning; going out for a short walk in the garden; going to the nearby supermarket surreptitiously, for the bare minimum, with the declaration in hand that you lived nearby.<\/p>\n

Observance of the rules: the mask, the body temperature measured, the notices of community prohibitions. Suddenly empty spaces and places filled with messages of spirited hope: “Everything will be fine<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Relationships that materialized only on computer and smartphone screens: chatting with family, with friends, with a trusted yogi<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Working from home, teleconferencing. The workshops<\/em> and live broadcasts of the contests on Instagram. The whole world contingent in small visual miniatures on the screens singing hymns and ballads.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_btn title=”Back” color=”black” size=”sm” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-left” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.andreacalestani.it%2Fen%2Fworks%2F|title:Urban%20stories|”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_masonry_media_grid grid_id=”vc_gid:1715868069307-9f7b660f-50a0-8″ include=”3206,3208,3210,3212,3214,3216,3218,3178,3180,3182,3184,3186,3188,3190,3192,3194,3196,3198,3200,3202,3204″ css=”.vc_custom_1715852571477{border-top-width: 3px !important;border-right-width: 3px !important;border-bottom-width: 3px !important;border-left-width: 3px !important;border-left-color: #ffffff !important;border-left-style: initial !important;border-right-color: #ffffff !important;border-right-style: initial !important;border-top-color: #ffffff !important;border-top-style: initial !important;border-bottom-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-style: initial !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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