Marco Iannaccone / Scarlet Lovejoy

Society under arrest

There are no more certainties and everything is being lost under our incredulous and apathetic eyes. This is how this photographic project is born.

The individual is paralyzed by the wall of indifference that surrounds him, as if he did not have the strength to react, to oppose this spiral of violence and degradation that grips him and precipitates him more and more downwards. With the usual ironic-grotesque and surreal touch, which has always characterized his artistic production, Marco Iannaccone, presents a series of crimes: some of them arise from the exaggerated media interference in our private life. You can get to crime, for absurd, to be excluded from “X Factor” or to be deleted by “Facebook” or not to lose the last episode of “Big Brother” or even stain a serious crime, which and infanticide, to answer a cell phone call! The attention of the photographer, then fixed, on the crimes related to the increasingly worrying and growing economic crisis. Here are the photos of the unemployed young man who commits an atrocious crime because forced to have to depend on the mother’s pocket money or linked to theft, extortion and drug dealing. A strong emotional impact also characterizes the snapshots concerning homosexuality and crimes against the church. Homosexuality, aided by the church, is still considered, in the third millennium, a crime in many countries and the church itself is stained with crimes and misdeeds feeling protected by the walls of silence of the convents. The ironic eye of Marco Iannaccone does not spare criminal events; the woman continues to be considered only as an angel of the focolare and as such to be enslaved by a society still, in spite of everything, strongly masculine. “The greatest desperation that can take hold of a society and the doubt of living righteously is useless” (C. Alvaro) Society in arrest or stopping the company?

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