Palazzo Ducale in Genoa dedicates photo exhibition to Pasolini, almost on the centenary of his birth

The Loggia degli Albiati in Genoa ’s Palazzo Ducale hosts from November 30, 2021 to March 13, 2022 the exhibition Pier Paolo Pasolini. I don’ t let myself be moved by photographs, curated by Roberto Carnero and Marco Minuz, promoted and organized by Suazes, in collaboration with Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura and the Pier Paolo Pasolini Study Center of Casarsa della Delizia.

Approaching the centenary of his birth (Bologna, 1922), the Genoese exhibition aims to bring attention back to the figure of Pier Paolo Pasolini and his main personal, cultural and professional experiences through the medium of photography. A writer, journalist and filmmaker, Pasolini made his thoughts known in many works and documents and for this reason he is one of the pivotal figures in the national and international cultural debate after World War II. He was one of the most photographed public figures of his time, and many of these shots became his iconic images.

The exhibition aims to acquaint and explore his life and professional experience, to nurture, especially in the younger generations, a confrontation with Pasolini’s intellectual legacy. The selection of photographs in the exhibition allows for the construction of a path through the main experiences that characterized the poet’s work and life. Articulated in sections each dedicated to a specific theme, such as the city of Rome, the boys of the Roman suburbs, the concept of the body, the experience of cinema, the path does not follow a chronological rhythm : it invites the visitor to be inspired by the intellectual’s thoughts and words.

The choice of the photographic medium to explore Pasolini’s work and thought is not accidental. His relationship with the photographic medium was ambivalent. While he wrote “nothing like making a film compels one to look at things,” his relationship with still images was different as evidenced by his words, “to photographs it is enough to glance at them. I never look at them more than an instant. In an instant I see everything.”

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Palazzo Ducale in Genoa dedicates photo exhibition to Pasolini, almost on the centenary of his birth

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