BILE

Bile depicts an emotional curve between escaping reality and attempting to reconnect with it. Familiar figures from that time emerge, like friends and the territory where I grew up, in a context reshaped by the altered state of that period.

"Bile" is an ongoing project about my relationship with addiction to hard drugs in a specific time in my life.The series of images I try to present fit into a messy and disorienting narrative that communicates mostly on a perceptive level. It aims to be neither a condemnation nor an exaltation of them but a visual excursus about the mismanaged emotions of teenagers seeking escape from adult life without succeeding very well.

"Who knows whether the regret of loss will overcome that of the shame bestowed upon me by my shitty little town. Who knows if my father will hide my shame in that shoebox that he didn’t to buy me. If for some reason I should be forgiven and manage to wake up i swear I will start going to mass every Sunday.
And this time I will eat grandma’s gnocchi, although I suspect that before making them she didn’t wash her hands."

It is a project developed during Yogurt Magazine's curatorial workshop for emerging authors, shortlisted in Gomma Photography Grant in Gomma New Flavours category.