“The Wall: Subliminal projection of society” is an artistic photographic project by the visual artist Bruno Salvatore Latella, aimed at reinterpreting and narrating, in a conceptual and dystopian key, his vision of the thought of the philosopher and sociologist Jean-Paul Sartre, contextualized in his work Il Muro. The artist, taking inspiration from the historical period that our contemporaneity is experiencing, began to do artistic research on the theme of quarantine and the lack of "freedom", declining the idea of walls as a barrier to the social.
In fact Sartre, in his work analyzes the concept of social walls, from the madness of domestic closure to the various forms of racism, up to death; the philosopher divides his book into five chapters: “The Wall”, “The Room”, “Erostrato”, “Intimacy”, “Childhood of a Chief”, titles from which the photographic works take their names.
The project is realized through the combination of the "subliminal" and “society”: first (the “subliminal”) represented by the constant presence of the symbol of Neptune (translated from the idea of destruction and rebirth),a symbol thet fulfills as a journey, from the “technical” (Huxley) and virtual world, passing from the mind to the heart and therofore to the full intrinsic alienation by man; second (the "society"), represented by the vision of the "liquid" man, as defined by the sociologist Bauman, played by different "actors" but approved by the white and anonymous mask they wear.
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