At the Opificio della Fotografia ‘Carne Politica’, the body as space in the world

It opens tomorrow at the Opificio della Fotografia – and will remain open until May 10th – ‘Political Carne’ a review that represents an investigation into photography, philosophy, art and society to change the way we look at and experience the body, beyond any aesthetic narrative. “The title – it is explained in the presentation – is not a metaphor. Flesh is political because it is the place where every social norm, every geographical border, every gender code is inscribed or broken. Never before in this historical moment has the body been the object of both reclamation and contestation: bodies that migrate and are rejected, bodies that occupy squares, bodies that do not correspond to any category, bodies that expose themselves and bodies that hide. Bodies that simply exist where they should not”.

Twenty-one photographers on display, with contributions arriving from all over Italy but also from Mexico, the USA and France. The Milanese exhibition follows three directions that question the body seen as ‘Political Space‘, where the images tell the sign of time and effort, where the tattooed skin becomes a surface as an act of self-determination, like ‘Living Presence‘ in which the photos convey the gravity and consistency of the bodies, but also as ‘Resistance and Fall‘ in which the frames show the vulnerability of our physical expression. Those who follow a photograph that doesn’t resolve are stories in images.

As Federicapaola Capecchi, creator of ‘Corpoeimmagini’, explains “I am a photography curator and I am a choreographer. These two professions do not coexist within me: they talk to each other, question each other, sometimes challenge each other. From both I have learned how much the body costs, how much it takes up space, how much it disturbs, how much it resists”.

By Editor