Elis Villaverde

Photographer
  
Crazy or death
Public Project
Crazy or death
Copyright Elis Villaverde 2024
Date of Work Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Updated Jan 2021
Location Torino
Topics Abandonment, Black and White, Borders, Community, Conceptual, Documentary, Isolation, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Video, Visual storytelling
“You become a character here, or you’re crazy or you died at Cavallerizza.”
Iaiowski is a young popular artist inside the Cavallerizza Reale of Turin, and it is thanks to his words that this work takes shape, exploring this place as a mysterious place, sometimes disturbing, whit particular attention to the details inside. The entire area has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, and 5 years ago a group of citizens decided to occupy the complex to avoid its sale because it was considered a common good.
Since then, there have been several versions of this place. From voice to voice, these stories have led me to want to discover something more. I was curious to discover how I would be able to deal with the subject without being influenced by common opinion, but above all how I would be able to move away from my usually descriptive language to embrace a more metaphorical one.
“O sei matto o sei morto” weaves symbols present in this area with the rich human presence of the same enigmaticity, is a reflection on an ambiguous space, almost surreal.
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