Photographic exhibition by Andrea Colarieti and Barbara Sanna Murgia
There are stories that can be explained with words.
Others that need to be told through images.
The exhibition stems from the collaboration between Andrea Colarieti and Barbara Sanna Murgia, and tells a true, personal, strenuous, and painful story: that of a woman who survived the violence of her partner, who brutally attacked her outside her home, leaving her on the ground and fleeing.
But this exhibition does not only want to tell the story of violence.
It wants to tell the "before".
Who remained, the "after".
It wants to tell the "before".
Who remained, the "after".
The exhibition begins with the self-portraits taken by Barbara before the assault.
Intimate, everyday images through which the visitor progressively enters the life of a woman, a mother, a photographer.
Intimate, everyday images through which the visitor progressively enters the life of a woman, a mother, a photographer.
A glimpse of normalcy, the portrait of a person before her story was hijacked.
The narrative continues with the self-portraits taken by Barbara immediately after the assault.
Here, the photographs become a testament. No reconstruction. Just the documentation of what happened and the traces that violence left on a woman's body and mind.
Here, the photographs become a testament. No reconstruction. Just the documentation of what happened and the traces that violence left on a woman's body and mind.
A window opened onto this story, without filters, through the eyes of the person who experienced it firsthand.
The final part of the exhibition is entrusted to Andrea's shots.
Here, the gaze changes, and photography becomes an encounter, a resolution.
Barbara is no longer defined by what was done to her, but by who she is today.
Here, the gaze changes, and photography becomes an encounter, a resolution.
Barbara is no longer defined by what was done to her, but by who she is today.
Andrea's photographs depict a woman who found the strength to look reality in the face, to report her abuser, to protect and bring her daughter to safety, and to take back control of her life.
The exhibition thus becomes the final chronological chapter of a journey that, starting from an illusory idyll, leads to awareness, from danger to freedom, from survival to rebirth.
It is not just an exhibition about violence.
Barbara's images bear witness to what was.
Andrea's tell of what is and can still be.
Andrea's tell of what is and can still be.
Two photographers, two different photographic languages.
The exhibition also aims to be an invitation to look beyond the image of the victim.
Because a woman who has suffered violence is not only what happened to her.
She is also who she was before.
But above all, who she chose to be after.
It is life that somehow goes on.
Because a woman who has suffered violence is not only what happened to her.
She is also who she was before.
But above all, who she chose to be after.
It is life that somehow goes on.
And, sometimes, it restarts precisely from a glance.
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