Public Story
Pandemic Stains
This series of pictures started under the hard lockdown in Milano, the capital of the worst-affected Italian region for coronavirus, and ended with the national easing restrictions of June 3th. It shows biological stains at night, in private, public and work places considered to be at the highest risk of contagion for coronavirus according to the international scientific community standards.
We made visible the invisible, using a multi-spectrum light (usually a tool for scientific police corps on crime scenes, we rented from a supplier in Rome) to show what escapes the human eye. This doesn’t mean we are able to reveal places, objects or people that are virulences enough for human transmission, more widely we’re revealing traces such as saliva, sweat, fingerprints, feces, urine and some chemicals on daily life objects and public places.
With an alternative visual representation of daily life under the coronavirus, our aim is to stimulate a wider discussion on the psychological effects of the pandemic and how it shaped our personal, private, working and public sphere.
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN
Oct. 2020 - Jan. 2021
We're organizing a crowdfunding campaign selling portable wood-lights with fine art prints from the project made with UV color liquids that glows in the dark. The final goal is to found-raise resources for a book of Pandemic Stains, out in early/mid 2021.
We're creating a solid team of communication partners and technical sponsors in Italy to achieve this goals, among them: Sky Tg 24, talk in a main national news TV show; Leica Camera Italy, hosting a first minor exhibition of the project in Oct./Nov., Milano; HP, printing technical sponsorship; Perimetro.eu, for digital & physical communication in Milan. A first main exhibition is scheduled at the next Photolux Festival of Lucca, in Nov. 2020.
We're now looking for international editorial publications and working on a new chapter of the work that will be shoot in autumn and winter 2020/2021.Feel free to contact and ask us more informations and pictures.
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