ITALY
Drawings By Federico Alcaro
Words by Federico Alcaro
April 2020
One of the points my work focuses is the constant reinterpretation of the images and of their meanings. The artworks do not have a unique, unambiguous and forced meaning but have a main significance to which other meaning, that may or may not belong to the main theme, lead. The following artworks stress some social behaviors that create material and immaterial barriers and boundaries between people. Barriers that upset our social system with repercussions on the places (natural and artificial) that surround us.
Federico Alcaro, Common Isolation, Print on paper, 40x40cm. Date of Completion: April 3, 2020.
Inspired by the condition of isolation that the coronavirus has forced us to assume as a daily routine, the image shows the return to normality but with the minds upset and afraid of human contact, so much to barricade themselves with airtight suits that do not allow to recognize friends from strangers. This leads to the consequent disparity between rich and poor that freezes the rich in plastic suits and confines the poor in the open-air world.
Federico Alcaro, Common Isolation, Print on paper, 40x40cm. Date of Completion: April 17, 2020.
Common Isolation was inspired by the condition of isolation that the coronavirus has forced us to assume as a daily routine. We are all in a prison without bars, closed in our domestic societies, at a safe distance but close in common isolation. We feel inside bubbles as formed by the same soap that we compulsively use to disinfect our hands. We desire freedom and we desire each other.