Back to the real life

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Back to the Real Life is a visual and exploratory search inside a cruise ship through a gaze that recontextualizes it, interpreting it in its entirety as a performance machine.

From the choice of sets, through the many doors that lead into the backstage, to the discovery of the places where, in a whirlwind of frenetic steps, everything that goes on stage originates.
A place where everything is aimed at the perfect creation of a parallel, floating world. A bubble in which everything flows with predetermined rhythms and modes.

It is the backstage where our characters find space, embodying the guise of the maid, the cook, the dancers and the stagehands, so that when the show starts, it never stops. A world unto itself, free but fatally constrained by the infinity of the sea, untethered from the flow of time, in which feeling “elsewhere” is essence.

And so it is that, evoking the utopia of a unified world and the dream of a universe to explore, the journey begins.

In 2024 ISIA Urbino took part in Polycopies, a photo publishing festival organized on the occasion of Paris Photo in Paris. This is one of three selected volumes and three book authors presented in collaboration with Corraini Edizioni.