Centro Internazionale di fotografia - Cantieri Culturali della Zisa, Palermo
PHOTOGRAPHIC REPORTAGE INSIDE THE UCCIARDONE PRISON - PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
<< When we talk about prison, unless we have a personal experience, we cannot imagine the drama of that reality, of how much society refuses the guilty, both before and after their release and how the concept of freedom is reinterpreted by those who no longer know what freedom means.
What happens inside the prison is not fully knowable. The prison is also made up of "boundary walls, bars, keys, long corridors, echoing sounds, radios on here and there, loud televisions, rows of cells with many men and women inside."
Many inmates will have to deal with the concept of "time". In fact, in order to reorganise one's life, it will be necessary not only to confront the loss of freedom, but of time as well: no longer the one of life outside the walls, which passes quickly, which is never enough for us, that runs on our lives faster than our actions, but the interminable, infinite, slow, programmed one, imprisoned within walls that have no time. >>
Monica Capizzano
