StillClose

StillClose, a project by Elvio Pierattini – a student of Accademia Italiana, is presented as a visual investigation dedicated to contemporary corpography. The naked body and the surface of the skin become the center of a research that interprets individual identity as an intimate geography, made of signs, traces and personal resonances.

The project aims to restore visibility and dignity to a real body aesthetic, freeing it from the stereotypical and normalizing mechanisms that characterize media representation. The research opposes the artificial and homogenizing visual paradigms that contribute to the derealization of the body image, generating distorted, simulated and hard-to-reach models.

StillClose proposes an alternative strategy: valuing the authentic, imperfect, unique body. Photography takes on the role of ethical and aesthetic practice, capable of creating spaces in which diversity can be welcomed, legitimized, and celebrated.

The project takes the form of a form of symbolic and cultural resistance: a phenomenological approach that recognizes the body as an inhabited, situated and political place, and calls for new visual codes-more inclusive, complex and deeply human.

The project, along with all the finalist works from the “Normal is Extraordinary” international contest, will be exhibited at the MAXXI Corner from Dec. 5 to 8 (free admission).