Voli in diretta
The RAI production takes place in the parallel dimension of the studios, established in the premises of an old factory.
In a suspension where nothing appears to happen but everything is ever changing, places confer their true identity. These places are in constant mutation, nurtured by a parallel space, punctuated by television programming, a city within a city that lives forever in the shadows, as a sort of magical stasis.
Unexpected landscapes emerge through the darkness that, at once, soothes and nurtures tensions. If in a TV show the performer is put in the foreground, to surveillance cameras we are the performers, the main actors of reality with eyes fixed on the fiction of the TV screen.
Milan, Italy over the redbrick dotted blanket of the former Caproni (oldest Italian aircraft factory), deep within the body of an industrial architecture of the early twentieth century, stands Rai's production center (national television).
On the outside, it projects a spectral and worn image, a suspended past, on the inside it reveals a joint machinery, that is no longer industrial, but fully incorporated and essential to the civilization of entertainment, now fully established. The stark contrast between the industrial ideological modern past and the post-industrial, post-ideological and post-modern present that unfold in the same place, creates a strong dichotomous dimension articulated in the layers of the epidermis and in the most hidden limbs. The television spaces in which various and hyper-saturated colours collapse are abysmal, but equally abysmal are such former industrial spaces where a century collapses carrying a limited color selection. Entertainment is what is recorded in the studios; likewise, the photographer - who sneaks between the maze of surveillance cameras and triggers a stratified dialogue between image, recording, enjoyment and meaning - is entertainment.
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