Giulio Rimondi

Born in Bologna, Italy, 1984

Lives and works between Italy and Beirut

Below growth, below politics, below exhaustion; Italy seems to be sinking beneath itself, hit by a crisis far beyond sheer economics. But below this Italy of grotesque TV parades, runaway youth and sinking morals there is much more. There is all the diversity of a country of countries, tied together by a common plague - loneliness. A cultural blessing, a social curse, a ticket to empathy. ITALIANA is a descent through the unchartered, across irregular byways and small-sized characters; the secondary geography of an unglobalized country where modernity make little sense. The peasantry and the slums; the squallor and the sacred; desolation and poetry. In times of easy seduction, where audience and success have become synonyms, escaping the language of spectacularization becomes an act of revolt.

https://www.giuliorimondi.com/