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In her photo project, Alessandra Calò focus her attention to workers of Reggiane industry.
This is possible thanks to her researches in archives and interviews to people who worked there from 40’s until its closure.
These stories turn into portraits, through places in which they took place, and through the overlaps with these work signs.
Draws, graphics, counts , become the net which brings the watcher to the deep heart of these pictures.
These portraits can be read as kind of allegory of work: there are sweet crinkled faces of people who spent the most of their lives in these places, talking about their own secret history , and also working sheets talking about doubts and questions of men and his work.
What will be the new idea of work? In which way this idea will focus on men and his mind?
These workers in pictures of Alessandra Calò are looking to us, and answer is up to us.
This is possible thanks to her researches in archives and interviews to people who worked there from 40’s until its closure.
These stories turn into portraits, through places in which they took place, and through the overlaps with these work signs.
Draws, graphics, counts , become the net which brings the watcher to the deep heart of these pictures.
These portraits can be read as kind of allegory of work: there are sweet crinkled faces of people who spent the most of their lives in these places, talking about their own secret history , and also working sheets talking about doubts and questions of men and his work.
What will be the new idea of work? In which way this idea will focus on men and his mind?
These workers in pictures of Alessandra Calò are looking to us, and answer is up to us.
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