Yet sometimes, society tries to erase the “diversity” that makes us all so wonderfully unique, it tends to work more on the collective than on the individual, to create approved universes, communities of similar people where the individual must identify with the group and the plurality of people is not always respected. So the “diversities” are not attributed to each individual as a being that is different from another, but only to a few that have “special features” that make them dissimilar to the homologation of the group. And it’s for this reason that the presence of the so-called “different” in society generates conflicts causing distress to the normal functioning of the system. The “diversity” that is often seen in a negative way, as a “threat” to one’s identity and therefore the presence of the “different” often generates feelings of fear, anxiety, suspicion. If instead we tried to perceive the “difference” not as a limit to communication, but as a “value”, a “resource”, “right, the encounter with the other might in some cases bring conflict, but never discrimination. Only the affirmation of their own identity and, at the same time, the appreciation of differences.
This exhibition tries to revamp awareness to revive the culture of acceptance and to prevent cultural homogenization. “Our differences, wrote Albert Jachard, are our wealth”. The other, as an individual or as a group, is valuable to the extent to which he is dissimilar. Photography is a way to translate ideas into concrete approaches and knowledge of the cultures of humanity. This exhibition is not my exclusive and personal vision but a collective work designed, made and shared with my closest collaborators.
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