https://mariasilvano.com mariasilvano Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:47:50 +0000 https://mariasilvano.com en https://mariasilvano.com/Copertina Tue, 03 May 2022 09:09:30 +0000 mariasilvano https://mariasilvano.com/Copertina MARIA SILVANO <img width="1500" height="964" width_o="1500" height_o="964" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fbe4d26e3f0716118799ba7fc376f50ea72c9aa93e7a617b69de7ff142192d0/2_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" data-mid="141502731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fbe4d26e3f0716118799ba7fc376f50ea72c9aa93e7a617b69de7ff142192d0/2_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" /> Projects<img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67d7dc88554f35ba8b13f7445eb2497e4ff0517e78bc3ed501306533cecaa19b/IMG_3524_web.jpg" data-mid="233381111" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67d7dc88554f35ba8b13f7445eb2497e4ff0517e78bc3ed501306533cecaa19b/IMG_3524_web.jpg" /> Family photography https://mariasilvano.com/Ramificazioni Thu, 23 May 2019 17:11:19 +0000 mariasilvano https://mariasilvano.com/Ramificazioni Ramificazioni My nephew Giovanni started talking. My father was the one to tell me that, yesterday at the telephone. That call made me feel very far: he was laughing on our terrace in Venice and I’m quite sure that, if I tried, I would have been able to hear the swallow’s flight from the other side of the receiver. From my little balcony in Elsenstrasse you see a yellow crane and a construction site. Crane in German is &nbsp;“Kran”. Before leaving Italy I thought hard which boxes to take with me. I was sure that one day I would have needed a sweater rather than another. I thought: “My life is two suitcases and seven boxes” “ My life are twelve and three” “ His, two and one” “I have a bag full of photos and a moka pot filled with sadness”. My feeling of belonging and my inevitable recognition with the objects around me, clashed with my desire to feel untied and cut my roots. On the other hand, changing country and meeting a new culture strengthened my roots.&nbsp; We are more than 500 thousand. We have deep and faraway roots. We have desires and we wish to see our hopes bloom. <img width="1000" height="707" width_o="1000" height_o="707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdc962a655ec1f95f5b59524027a348c0f5914ca6e08f42dd39b0494caeeb657/3_maria_silvano_ramifiazioni.jpg" data-mid="42944076" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdc962a655ec1f95f5b59524027a348c0f5914ca6e08f42dd39b0494caeeb657/3_maria_silvano_ramifiazioni.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="706" width_o="1000" height_o="706" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39e0a949dc0454bc98c3816b34f3c290baa6c02523f5b50eeae317befeb67b82/1_maria_silvano_ramificazioni.jpg" data-mid="42944100" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39e0a949dc0454bc98c3816b34f3c290baa6c02523f5b50eeae317befeb67b82/1_maria_silvano_ramificazioni.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="701" width_o="1000" height_o="701" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5dc70a9a53a5d1c2fc81266f1309f65bc6604498e7eec2a4d1529c5797c87c6/7_maria_silvano_ramifiazioni.jpg" data-mid="42944105" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5dc70a9a53a5d1c2fc81266f1309f65bc6604498e7eec2a4d1529c5797c87c6/7_maria_silvano_ramifiazioni.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="709" width_o="1000" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/258b96aca0214dde544555f9ac5685def6ac59800c99cd4c2adb5b518be71658/6_maria_silvano_ramifiazioni.jpg" data-mid="42944104" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/258b96aca0214dde544555f9ac5685def6ac59800c99cd4c2adb5b518be71658/6_maria_silvano_ramifiazioni.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="699" width_o="1000" height_o="699" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25882b6e7dbc153271b5690a62ad676013e29704e6cfdae8aec75bd79767a895/5_maria_silvano_ramifiazioni.jpg" data-mid="42944103" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25882b6e7dbc153271b5690a62ad676013e29704e6cfdae8aec75bd79767a895/5_maria_silvano_ramifiazioni.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="701" width_o="1000" height_o="701" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a14de9912682f15d5c32ebb0b2ef9c2304a77418f901bb4d5a5261f2c7912b2/4_maria_silvano_ramifiazioni.jpg" data-mid="42944102" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a14de9912682f15d5c32ebb0b2ef9c2304a77418f901bb4d5a5261f2c7912b2/4_maria_silvano_ramifiazioni.jpg" /> <img width="998" height="717" width_o="998" height_o="717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f257569d3343f0a2b5e437b0979029c552976fb60b2486ceb8f94506cf7828e4/2_maria_silvano_ramificazioni.jpg" data-mid="42944101" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/998/i/f257569d3343f0a2b5e437b0979029c552976fb60b2486ceb8f94506cf7828e4/2_maria_silvano_ramificazioni.jpg" /> Ramificazioni, is a project I worked on for a long time. It binds photography to my studies in anthropology and starts from a strong reflection on my condition as an emigrant: starting from my personal experience I looked for a way to give form to the feelings that influenced my last two years in Berlin. The migration dynamics of a Europe without borders are not fundamentally very different from those of the previous century: there are the same dreams of luck and prosperity, the same desire for a better life and a longing for what has been left behind that -it is known- is exacerbated with time. The work consists of 13 photos and is accompanied by a soundtrack in which the voices of the photographed subjects overlap each other: problems of pronunciation and inflections language can be composed to create a forest of voices. &nbsp; https://mariasilvano.com/Sono-radicata-ma-scorro Thu, 23 May 2019 17:11:19 +0000 mariasilvano https://mariasilvano.com/Sono-radicata-ma-scorro Sono radicata ma scorro My roots are strong but I flow like a river. I have deep and grounded bases but I make my best to adapt myself to the change of time. Like water does, our lives run, fill up and overflow the river banks. Our lives are fluid, are woven together, they merge and then tear apart. In Novembre 2015, after the terrorist attack at the Bataclan I felt the need to undertake a journey to Paris to see, to understand the sorrow. Then, for the first time after the death of my grandfather, I returned to Rome, the city he loved the most. For the first time I understood these two cities. Humans shape symbolically the landscape, conferring to it a series of dense cultural meanings: the landscape is the product of the synthesis between a natural data and a sensorial faculty (Ligi 2009, p. 49-50; Tuan 1979). Combing my anthropological studies and my photographic research, I tried to understand the influence of myth on the landscape: how a myth represents the landscape, which meaning does it confer to it and how it transforms it into something lively and familiar (Malinowski 1973). <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1eeb726713fc54d635e53b3fdc01a158b3811fa9faaddd2005e5605161e42792/2_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" data-mid="42945488" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1eeb726713fc54d635e53b3fdc01a158b3811fa9faaddd2005e5605161e42792/2_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eae68c9025bd6cc88eb7b96864e5d927d75bccc69a416da5c70208c4eaa07db5/3_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" data-mid="42945489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eae68c9025bd6cc88eb7b96864e5d927d75bccc69a416da5c70208c4eaa07db5/3_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/117d98d0e42626335c94ae356a95fd4e3a4d5fba60cb3075aa0adbbf1a10d587/1_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" data-mid="42945487" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/117d98d0e42626335c94ae356a95fd4e3a4d5fba60cb3075aa0adbbf1a10d587/1_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3cfc5239d8294d1ef22ddef66d23d559930a0945a785d5447aa77d09325a0fb/4_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" data-mid="42945491" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3cfc5239d8294d1ef22ddef66d23d559930a0945a785d5447aa77d09325a0fb/4_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd8e08003b446ab5024c310248ea6720c1ca2855cd22352c281ffb6e2b27f2ab/8_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" data-mid="42945495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd8e08003b446ab5024c310248ea6720c1ca2855cd22352c281ffb6e2b27f2ab/8_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fae33f70d08c2147f35450f0bcd0ba0c472b566bca7bdeb0975896171c35ddd3/7_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" data-mid="42945494" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fae33f70d08c2147f35450f0bcd0ba0c472b566bca7bdeb0975896171c35ddd3/7_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47dfdac659496c3489c95228efee23579c414de83d253ede52cdf87847175635/5_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" data-mid="42945492" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47dfdac659496c3489c95228efee23579c414de83d253ede52cdf87847175635/5_maria_silvano_sono_radicata.jpg" /> Sono radicata ma scorro, is a series of 8 c-print photos I shot between Berlin, Paris and Rome in Novembre 2015. Like in a fieldwork research all pictures are supported by an extract of my field journal referring to them. Exhibited at Shaping Clouds Popup Space, Berlin, April 2016 https://mariasilvano.com/The-boiling-life Thu, 23 May 2019 17:11:20 +0000 mariasilvano https://mariasilvano.com/The-boiling-life The boiling life I experienced wind and light. I experienced simplicity. I experienced relationships and realized that the world is nothing but the product of the relations between me and others. Everything matters, Everything has a reason, a web of connections. In November 2015 I went to Marocco with the awareness that I, myself, was the starting point to build a travel journal. The physical structures – the external word – have been molded by emotional structures: the gashes of what is out of myself are soaked in my emotional position. I paid attention to shades and small events, trying to get to the essence of things. I bumped into the ostentation of density, into the boiling life that runs in me. <img width="1500" height="964" width_o="1500" height_o="964" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fbe4d26e3f0716118799ba7fc376f50ea72c9aa93e7a617b69de7ff142192d0/2_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" data-mid="42946219" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fbe4d26e3f0716118799ba7fc376f50ea72c9aa93e7a617b69de7ff142192d0/2_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="933" width_o="1500" height_o="933" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf304147e357ebc3ebaae1bd6ebec7dc62b015ff7c6f9b3e6d4ad168e6839d90/7_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" data-mid="42946222" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf304147e357ebc3ebaae1bd6ebec7dc62b015ff7c6f9b3e6d4ad168e6839d90/7_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="933" width_o="1500" height_o="933" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1984788183b0cfb8ca3e278ac26d0bcb587d17d9b6613dbc6d22aacca5ea09db/5_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" data-mid="42946220" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1984788183b0cfb8ca3e278ac26d0bcb587d17d9b6613dbc6d22aacca5ea09db/5_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="910" width_o="1500" height_o="910" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23823860101dfba52eb0f97638425245e7470fb844a8fa7b86600ecd39e8a51b/1_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" data-mid="42946349" border="0" data-scale="98" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23823860101dfba52eb0f97638425245e7470fb844a8fa7b86600ecd39e8a51b/1_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="946" width_o="1500" height_o="946" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd55ab2ecdd7c25ec00b2670798a969770b00bf36f4816e770396de723b12640/8_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" data-mid="42946480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd55ab2ecdd7c25ec00b2670798a969770b00bf36f4816e770396de723b12640/8_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="964" width_o="1500" height_o="964" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ffd12447a3f126dc87d2192e63a68dda709fcf18787879c607980d4cdc71e4b/3_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" data-mid="42946350" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ffd12447a3f126dc87d2192e63a68dda709fcf18787879c607980d4cdc71e4b/3_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="950" width_o="1500" height_o="950" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b68886b7beae1e4af880e7a1b94c7163699b3aeac78e7add72c91f49dda9030/6_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" data-mid="42946233" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b68886b7beae1e4af880e7a1b94c7163699b3aeac78e7add72c91f49dda9030/6_maria_silvano_boiling_life.jpg" /> The work consists of 14 c-print photos 40x60. It binds a photograph to my studies in anthropology and starts from a strong reflection on my condition as a external viewer: starting from my personal experience I looked for a way to give form to the feelings that influenced my staying in Marocco. https://mariasilvano.com/Una-foresta Thu, 23 May 2019 18:31:07 +0000 mariasilvano https://mariasilvano.com/Una-foresta Una foresta <img width="1236" height="1752" width_o="1236" height_o="1752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4058f3beb7d644763b43722248bddf35b6ccc102ef22280178de31e25595e51a/mamma-e-nonni-fiori.jpg" data-mid="43158787" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4058f3beb7d644763b43722248bddf35b6ccc102ef22280178de31e25595e51a/mamma-e-nonni-fiori.jpg" /> After my grandfather's death there is a photo that moves me more than any other: there is my mother - she must be two years old - with pretty and plump legs in her white dress. Next to her sits my Grandmother, young and beautiful. She is smiling at her little girl and at her man, who must have rushed to be in the shot after having started the self-timer. That man is my Grandfather…all blurred. After December 13th, 2013 I began looking at photography as a way to immortality, questioning myself about the cycle of life and death. I started wondering about the meaning of “Fragile”. I had to become familiar with small gestures and started to understand their meaning. I had to comprehend the passing of the time and how important sun and shadows are. I’ve learned that the most important thing is not to be afraid but to pay attention, to stop yourself and listen to your body growing. I turned myself into a plant.In the portrait photos of my 12 subjects, photography is just a medium to print their faces directly onto leaves. I see leaves as the symbol of the passage of time and the life cycle. The leaves were placed under vacuum thus blocking the natural process of decomposition. <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcce6b31bc1a59dedd57d58439542f04e72fd316aee4c2b3ef8fdb1650ed2e4d/2_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" data-mid="42947217" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcce6b31bc1a59dedd57d58439542f04e72fd316aee4c2b3ef8fdb1650ed2e4d/2_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68de47772c1699199687d080df1c0432d3a48707dd23baee4b2f597a20f20848/4_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" data-mid="42948003" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68de47772c1699199687d080df1c0432d3a48707dd23baee4b2f597a20f20848/4_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5befce00bb0f3c4c8beab7aac705c802434b08b21aaa092ae6e7958ba3d01cee/1_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" data-mid="42948106" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5befce00bb0f3c4c8beab7aac705c802434b08b21aaa092ae6e7958ba3d01cee/1_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/940665eca3ea60317c5bc6725d9fdf3a5dddcce71428de2cc1bf002e22635e43/8_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" data-mid="42948118" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/940665eca3ea60317c5bc6725d9fdf3a5dddcce71428de2cc1bf002e22635e43/8_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4b25bf34438297e9cf069f54024510662aa7d19c6a82857b0cc36963c3b09ee/3_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" data-mid="42948108" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4b25bf34438297e9cf069f54024510662aa7d19c6a82857b0cc36963c3b09ee/3_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44e90e792501fc85b2a59441c53e3c1d5a281723a65c7ce93c9ff5e471360977/6_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" data-mid="42947998" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44e90e792501fc85b2a59441c53e3c1d5a281723a65c7ce93c9ff5e471360977/6_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68de47772c1699199687d080df1c0432d3a48707dd23baee4b2f597a20f20848/4_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" data-mid="42948003" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68de47772c1699199687d080df1c0432d3a48707dd23baee4b2f597a20f20848/4_maria_silvano_foresta.jpg" /> https://mariasilvano.com/Nonne-e-nipoti Thu, 23 May 2019 19:17:51 +0000 mariasilvano https://mariasilvano.com/Nonne-e-nipoti Nonne e nipoti&nbsp; “Dear Grandma, I have the feeling that my handwriting is becoming tinier every day in your absence and that my nostalgia is turning into the memory of the light that was seeping in your kitchen right after lunch. I keep thinking about all the things I didn't get to say to you. In my heart I’m carrying the weight of a precious legacy built on an infinite joy of living. We have the same hands and with these hands I embroider.” <img width="3592" height="1187" width_o="3592" height_o="1187" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/336945dc26e5d0d66473cfe2f3a7f6202810eaa5109ea1bd8d2f0a883dba477d/stella_santisis_small.jpg" data-mid="42949106" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/336945dc26e5d0d66473cfe2f3a7f6202810eaa5109ea1bd8d2f0a883dba477d/stella_santisis_small.jpg" /> <img width="3590" height="1178" width_o="3590" height_o="1178" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e886ea97ba6dabf66e337b5cacbd81cfe350a45601c0fb8f6fccb425d4102021/acia_zoey_small.jpg" data-mid="43174304" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e886ea97ba6dabf66e337b5cacbd81cfe350a45601c0fb8f6fccb425d4102021/acia_zoey_small.jpg" /> <img width="3596" height="1175" width_o="3596" height_o="1175" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f9f1587f7e38f4fc0489f47937ee4b24789a577a3408cd4b40eb696a0394f31/tara_forlati_small.jpg" data-mid="43174317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f9f1587f7e38f4fc0489f47937ee4b24789a577a3408cd4b40eb696a0394f31/tara_forlati_small.jpg" /> <img width="3589" height="1179" width_o="3589" height_o="1179" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84a8ce49fedda82024d8fa04dfe66141981ee2dd404ab7d25099773070bdafcc/mariagrazia_annuka_small.jpg" data-mid="43174308" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84a8ce49fedda82024d8fa04dfe66141981ee2dd404ab7d25099773070bdafcc/mariagrazia_annuka_small.jpg" /> <img width="3596" height="1174" width_o="3596" height_o="1174" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea74a54fc380bdb0fe65f12a36502a2609b7f966f7ddf15dcdeac6588ac6406d/sela_gandolfi_small.jpg" data-mid="43174603" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea74a54fc380bdb0fe65f12a36502a2609b7f966f7ddf15dcdeac6588ac6406d/sela_gandolfi_small.jpg" /> Nonne e nipoti tries to compare two different generations of women in order to tell their stories from post WWII to present day.In October 2016 I photographed six imaginary grandmothers and six imaginary granddaughters in their living rooms. I showed to the grandmas the photos of the six granddaughters, I asked them to pick one and to impersonate the young woman in the portrait, telling me what they think the life of a thirty-year-old woman today is about. Then, I asked to each granddaughter to look at the photo of the grandma who chose her and to imagine herself half-a-century later, at the age of a grandma.The grandmothers and the granddaughters never got to know each other. The embroidery I made on the photos wants to highlight the possible relations between two lives that will never meet. &nbsp; https://mariasilvano.com/Each-box-is-a-wish Thu, 23 May 2019 19:17:55 +0000 mariasilvano https://mariasilvano.com/Each-box-is-a-wish Each box is a wish&nbsp; “I want to be your red tin: the yellow one is not for me.” Cookie boxes, candy cans, coffee jars, cigar cases. Found, stolen, bought and traded. Some of them have followed me all the way here from Venice, I found the others on the way. It takes a few tools and some magic to transform them into pinhole cameras. With these rudimental yet magical tools I try to record a parallel, more intimate world: the world of desires. The outcome is raw and unpredictable, subject to the wizardries of physics and chemistry… and to chance. It takes one minute -maybe two in low light- for people to entrust their wishes to a cookie box.&nbsp; <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccd6dadc9d80b81c029de14aa30f42abb51b7fdec8c9b6bf2d0e5cbc1673ead5/IMG_8888.jpg" data-mid="43173084" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccd6dadc9d80b81c029de14aa30f42abb51b7fdec8c9b6bf2d0e5cbc1673ead5/IMG_8888.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/322a410c03f0054c1501fcd7cb92ddaf3d7687b6842bda74386c09b495643ef1/IMG_8878.jpg" data-mid="43173085" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/322a410c03f0054c1501fcd7cb92ddaf3d7687b6842bda74386c09b495643ef1/IMG_8878.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1711d44874dd1a1c04a68ac88b5c77618058b27854c64c51fbec0b2ec0e9dc89/IMG_8901.jpg" data-mid="43173115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1711d44874dd1a1c04a68ac88b5c77618058b27854c64c51fbec0b2ec0e9dc89/IMG_8901.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f90cd58e4bb9d0a66e03c127a34d034298c0fc5d5d394cb18006b76f3b0dabe1/IMG_8872.jpg" data-mid="43173134" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f90cd58e4bb9d0a66e03c127a34d034298c0fc5d5d394cb18006b76f3b0dabe1/IMG_8872.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a8c534b10b175cee43798f916064054cf5a07ec8894dfde161f93c8f9ef068c/IMG_8868.jpg" data-mid="43173129" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a8c534b10b175cee43798f916064054cf5a07ec8894dfde161f93c8f9ef068c/IMG_8868.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1002" width_o="1500" height_o="1002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46636167348ec00750d8218ef6c3fb71e15295b496b790d1c7e2e4b36e903cb4/IMG_8883.jpg" data-mid="43173131" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46636167348ec00750d8218ef6c3fb71e15295b496b790d1c7e2e4b36e903cb4/IMG_8883.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/763890b140a13b399541ed9c6036f599b96201c23a95c1d51c0de94048744889/IMG_8904.jpg" data-mid="43173132" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/763890b140a13b399541ed9c6036f599b96201c23a95c1d51c0de94048744889/IMG_8904.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be9a3a7dae6bf497509d8a163850e215e799933678923d8dae54bd6ba48397dc/IMG_8893.jpg" data-mid="43173128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be9a3a7dae6bf497509d8a163850e215e799933678923d8dae54bd6ba48397dc/IMG_8893.jpg" /> The exhibition is composed of 40 pictures (b/w, contact print) mounted inside the very same pinhole boxes that have produced them. These work as frames and can be displayed with their lid open or closed. Some images have a matching text containing the wish express by the person portrayed in the picture or the context in which it was taken. When possible, some sessions of dark room development can be organized. The visitors have a few boxes that they can use to fix their wishes, which I develop shortly after. All pieces are very light and compact (ranging from 5x5 cm to a maximum of 40x40cm) allowing an easy and effortless transportation of the whole exhibition.The metal boxes are also pretty sturdy and could also be exhibited outdoor. <img width="1000" height="1311" width_o="1000" height_o="1311" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8ed315239ef2516f53ef8a4f094add9d697d251411117b93d0315be943f4c81/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-006.jpg" data-mid="42951412" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8ed315239ef2516f53ef8a4f094add9d697d251411117b93d0315be943f4c81/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-006.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="553" width_o="1000" height_o="553" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f759b0b26cb0ffab276be255a3976b9061f0fec6db0142884ed82df2e55e5b4a/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-013.jpg" data-mid="42951437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f759b0b26cb0ffab276be255a3976b9061f0fec6db0142884ed82df2e55e5b4a/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-013.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="717" width_o="1000" height_o="717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e074e178d0cd4ffd821ca2fdeed7c19e9a88ba3f4f87054453da0cb9bc3b1a7/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-009.jpg" data-mid="42951436" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e074e178d0cd4ffd821ca2fdeed7c19e9a88ba3f4f87054453da0cb9bc3b1a7/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-009.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="719" width_o="1000" height_o="719" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/426729df0ce905a14fcfcbde7e60912918b9af02bbc498483cefa16eb5cecff0/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-008.jpg" data-mid="42951435" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/426729df0ce905a14fcfcbde7e60912918b9af02bbc498483cefa16eb5cecff0/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-008.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="2105" width_o="1000" height_o="2105" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57ef87c8e0df425fb4fdd33eba9fa13d16c1bf1052f799b0fa3eeb5943df1807/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-017.jpg" data-mid="43173285" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57ef87c8e0df425fb4fdd33eba9fa13d16c1bf1052f799b0fa3eeb5943df1807/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-017.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="855" width_o="1000" height_o="855" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71f18df5d28eb0cf4459ef4d841891647d1e6bd0e3487f358e9ddda1c5cfe207/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-011.jpg" data-mid="43173308" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71f18df5d28eb0cf4459ef4d841891647d1e6bd0e3487f358e9ddda1c5cfe207/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-011.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="758" width_o="1000" height_o="758" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d061383eff42d08e574ccc8781b7a9e7e654ab4038cfba4e9aa9e98fc439e9b0/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-012.jpg" data-mid="43173329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d061383eff42d08e574ccc8781b7a9e7e654ab4038cfba4e9aa9e98fc439e9b0/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-012.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="471" width_o="1000" height_o="471" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20d77e720786055168c0c81d15e9781246e19af3aff4db26939256b6cd6b0c23/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-014.jpg" data-mid="43173307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20d77e720786055168c0c81d15e9781246e19af3aff4db26939256b6cd6b0c23/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-014.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7e75e5da4024462db14cabd8826294668a2deff11e9ff72fbf6f7daeb0edc94/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-007.jpg" data-mid="42951434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7e75e5da4024462db14cabd8826294668a2deff11e9ff72fbf6f7daeb0edc94/Each-Box-MARIA-SILVANO-007.jpg" /> https://mariasilvano.com/Not-even-with-a-flower Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:47:50 +0000 mariasilvano https://mariasilvano.com/Not-even-with-a-flower Not even with a flower&nbsp; I must have been eight years old and the boy I liked so much brought me some flowers. It was a bunch of purple wisteria wrapped in kitchen paper, ants included. Then we took each other by the hand and walked to the school canteen together. In my imagination, we were already married. That same afternoon my betrothed appeared to me in the hallway between the changing rooms of the Judo gym wearing just a pair of hilarious red panties. I ran away, frightened. Thirty years have passed since that event, which frankly still leaves me with a huge question mark. Since then I have been a victim, a witness, and the confidant of so many friends. There was the maniac on the Vaporetto, the one on the bus, the one at the parking lot, the guy who waited on the street, the one who turned up on the stairway to my flat, the one who sent me anonymous messages for years and then, ultimately, the one at the party, the most hideous of them all. "It's normal, sooner or later it happens to everyone". No, it is not normal. Today, we live in a world where the separation between the real and virtual dimensions is no longer there, where statistics for Western Countries show that non-consensual online sharing of sexually explicit material is increasingly common. Technology-mediated violence makes abusive and antisocial behavior more likely. Sending non-consensual intimate material is one of the many ways in which gender-based violence manifests itself in the digital world. (...) According to a 2016 U.S. survey, 49% of women had received at least one unsolicited photo of male sex organs. In a late-2017 survey, 78% of women aged 18 to 34 and 69% of women aged 35 to 54 said that they had received at least one dick pic without prior consent. Seventeen percent of men admitted to sending an unsolicited genital image. According to a 2019 survey in the United States, 27% of young adult males had sent such unsolicited photos. (Hakima Bounemoura (22 March 2019). "Pourquoi certains hommes envoient des " dick pic ", des photos de leur pénis ?". 20 Minutes (in French). Retrieved 2019-11-01.) The flower etiquette originated in the 19th century. Behind the choice of composition was a message, as in the case of red roses, which could symbolize passion and desire or yellow roses, jealousy. Either way, the floral gift was a pleasant gesture to court a woman with sophistication. In the face of Dickpic's brutality, a sign of toxic masculinity, I respond with delicateness, with an old-fashioned hand gesture, by giving a Bouquet to any woman who felt offended. <img width="1039" height="1500" width_o="1039" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/936ccb27f9d06bd341c7eafb8cb2a28352e27a7aa1915fbed4166d662617b144/img20231109_12174240_small.jpg" data-mid="197908881" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/936ccb27f9d06bd341c7eafb8cb2a28352e27a7aa1915fbed4166d662617b144/img20231109_12174240_small.jpg" /> <img width="1037" height="1500" width_o="1037" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f656591220a3da25ad9c80bcbd27974ff2060dacb3461235600b5984757cd992/img20231109_12212220_small.jpg" data-mid="197908882" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f656591220a3da25ad9c80bcbd27974ff2060dacb3461235600b5984757cd992/img20231109_12212220_small.jpg" /> <img width="1035" height="1500" width_o="1035" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a04f4cae8fb6057230de5dab74bb5e3034a03c89fb59f2b7b250b1a0d0c7b1c8/img20231109_12285216_small.jpg" data-mid="197908884" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a04f4cae8fb6057230de5dab74bb5e3034a03c89fb59f2b7b250b1a0d0c7b1c8/img20231109_12285216_small.jpg" /> <img width="1042" height="1500" width_o="1042" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e42cee81fdd1ebdcba95ea634d8944842a3103896c29b0e40594464c277e5c42/img20231109_12250893_small.jpg" data-mid="197908883" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e42cee81fdd1ebdcba95ea634d8944842a3103896c29b0e40594464c277e5c42/img20231109_12250893_small.jpg" /> https://mariasilvano.com/The-thread-of-speech Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:17:32 +0000 mariasilvano https://mariasilvano.com/The-thread-of-speech The thread of speech Embroidery is a technique that requires time, precision and concentration. I think about this with my son Miro in my arms, in our living room invaded by his toys and questions, and I realize what a tiring and sublime exercise it is for me to carve out time to weave the threads. I started working on “the thread of speech” during the first lockdown when I was freshly pregnant with our second child, feeling sick and with no time at all. All the kindergartens and schools were closed and there was no time to think about what was happening in my body. During this time I forced myself to sit and ignore everyone for a few minutes every day, weaving through the threads and trying to find the thread again. A way to connect with myself, to the baby that was growing silently inside of me and later, return to my daily duties. The photos I embroidered were found in my grandmother’s house after her death. They were shot by her uncle Manlio in the 1930s in what was then Yugoslavia. <img width="1500" height="2154" width_o="1500" height_o="2154" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1706b0ac805148659950c985b2abd87f9475e55984be8f8ffc983bcc324e8df8/img20231108_14042663_small.jpg" data-mid="197906671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1706b0ac805148659950c985b2abd87f9475e55984be8f8ffc983bcc324e8df8/img20231108_14042663_small.jpg" /> <img width="1038" height="1500" width_o="1038" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c87ec659b52c32b917ccf939c9ee82b3916440d7352ae6ce3fe97776314950a/manlio_boxer001_small.jpg" data-mid="84164972" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c87ec659b52c32b917ccf939c9ee82b3916440d7352ae6ce3fe97776314950a/manlio_boxer001_small.jpg" /> <img width="1039" height="1500" width_o="1039" height_o="1500" 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