Gessopalena, Italy
One World Together at Home charts our renewed sense of community and our shared humanitarian condition during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Home quarantined in Italy, I have set out to use a computational process to compress footage coming from the social media, and documenting expressions of solidarity and compassion across the globe, into single digital images. They range from clapping to the healthcare professionals, to community singing from balconies, to appeals to stay home so as to slow down the spread of the infection. These expressions formed a shared vocabulary of solidarity for the countries hit by the pandemic, which shows that what we share is much more powerful than what keeps us apart, for better or for worse." The resulting visuals are footage distilled into minimal palettes, and arranged into aestheticizing compositions. Bridging geographies and leveling details of secondary importance, these traces of solidarity reaffirm how our illness can become wellness.
Italians Sing, 2020, digital C-print, 36" x 19.66" x 2"
