‘Shoot the crisis!
Quoting from the site: “It’s been so long since the crisis has begun shooting us. Someone tells it’s not running now, but someone else disagrees completely. And other people never felt it. Surely if you have fallen into crisis and don’t want to sink, you had better to understand that you need to SHOOT THE CRISIS, before the crisis shoots you”.
Here‘s the link to the website.
This contest was perfectly made for my research. As I usually face the creation of images, I don’t look for answers but try to suggest questions.
This contest suggested me a few questions:
How is supposed to be understood the word CRISIS for all the 80′s bourgeois kids who grew up like me with the security of being born in the right side of the world, in a paradise where nothing wrong and dangerous would never happen? We can’t complain, we’ll always have something to eat, to heat and to wear anyway. Do we have just to give up with our plans of being forever rich and honest (but guilty with the rest of the world)?. Is this word meaning just “quit the superfluous and live with the necessary“? Whatever, I like taking pictures around a table. That’s it.
About the title: I grew up in the North of Italy. There is a legend there (but everybody knows it’s not) that, during the bad patches in the countries with heavy lack of food, the farmers, our grannies actually, used to catch and eat cats, instead of rabbits and birds. This started to sound wild and savage in our post war culture which consecrated cats to elegant pieces of furniture.
Should we start to think to catch once more our wonderful furry friends sleeping on the couch and put them on our tables? Are really the times so bad? Is the word CRISIS really meaning something more?
I choosed to explore the boundaries between allucination and reality. Of course my reality. I think the only answer should be: irony.
Here is my submission to this competition promoted by Lib Lab, an italian creative laboratory:
“Mangiagatti”*
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*The cat has not been put through any kind of stress during the shooting. Obviously.
Here’s also the link to the gallery of the contest: Enjoy!
