Through the Window

I started this work in 2002. I was in Denamark and I noticed it was so easy and normal to be able to look into people's daily life just watching through a window. I use this stratagem to reflect upon photography and decided to stage some photos to document italian middles class daily life. I continued the work until 2009 experimenting, facing and photograph different situations also in other european countries. My photographic practice lays on the threshold of the documentary shot and the theatrical stage . What are we watching? What do we see? And what remains inaccessible, hidden between the folds of the image and beyond the frame? Watching generates an impetus to understand and to know. My research is therefore directed towards the viewer to his or her claim to decodify each image in an unequivocal way. Does not the fact that these dwellings seem to be transformed into a sort of cinematographic set, perhaps, preclude the fact that the protagonists are real people portrayed in their own houses? Did those people really go to a friend’s party and is that woman really lying on the floor amidst her child’s toys? Deep down, they interpret a credible version of themselves, within a possible situation, in a manner that is not dissimilar to an infinitude of other circumstances of life. My photos tend to be reliable and still, "there are no facts, only interpretations".