Sullo spigolo dei silenzi

series of 60 pieces - photos on silk ,120x140cm each, 2017 on going


The series Sullo spigolo dei silenzi "On the Edge of Silences" tells how race, ethnicity, as well as gender are socially constructed categories, imagined and invented by the society. The omnipotence of digital media and social networks commodifies every body and at the same time intensifies structural differences and inequalities through access to the technologies that really drive the market.

Collecting the stories of queers, of multiple and indefinite identities who live their sexuality as a defect or as a psychological problem dictated by public opinion, I took pictures of parts of their bodies making them indefinite, and then printed on a semi-transparent silk from which you can see both sides and then sew them together as a metaphor for the violence and exclusion dictated by society against those who are perceived as "other".

Photo by: Jana Kießer