DIE LIEBE BLEIBT. DIE LIEBE MACHT NICHT

BERLINO

The Italian artist explores the intimacy of mourning and the relationship with grief in a culture where death is not taboo.“Where I live, graveyards are quiet and sombre places. You grieve in silence and often in hiddenness. Crying makes you weak,but you don’t want people to perceive you that way. You go in bowed head and tiptoed as if you don’t want to wake the dead up.That’s how I grew up, fearing death to the point of dizziness, which I repress by squinting hard. But not everyone is like that.” In Berlin, graveyards are parks where people can eat, read, and laze. There is no boundary between public and private space. The only particular reminder of where we are is the graves around you. A tangible element makes the connection between the living and the dead. Small convivial spaces around the graves allow people to keep a conscious dialogue with their loved ones. This intimate face-to-face turns into the need to defeat the limits of death. Death does not separate but unites. It does so with a chair and a side table. In the series, each black-and-white analogue photograph captures with extreme delicacy and simplicity two elements that enhance the union of two worlds that coexist perfectly in their dimension, in an eternal dialogue between those who live and those who are no longer here.