The class participating in the project is Class 3F (school year 2025-2026) of the Audiovisual and Multimedia program at the Liceo Artistico “Angelo Frattini”.
Our school combines the study of subjects common to all high schools with the acquisition of specific knowledge and skills related to artistic expression and visual communication.
The Audiovisual and Multimedia program explores the historical, aesthetic, conceptual, expressive, and functional aspects that characterize the languages and techniques of visual, audiovisual, and multimedia communication. Its aim is to develop in students the skills necessary to express their creativity and design abilities within these fields.
L’abito che abito [The dress I inhabit] (2026)
Our project revolves around three fundamental ideas which, although apparently different from one another, all interpret the theme “ABITO” primarily through its meaning of “dwelling” or “inhabiting.”
A first group of students sought to visually represent the fundamental human need each of us has to find our own place in the world — to inhabit a space and truly make it our own. They did so through images in which the human figure is paradoxically absent, replaced instead by objects, clothes, and everyday items which, emptied of their ordinary functions, suddenly become containers filled with dreams, memories, and emotions.
A second group of students focused on the way people experience their relationships, through photographs portraying scenes of friendship and love captured in their spontaneity. The relationships we build every day with the people we care about can in fact be considered inner dwellings, places where — much like when we enter our own homes — we can feel truly free to be ourselves, without the need to pretend.
Finally, a third group critically explored the way we “inhabit” ourselves through photographs that, in an ironic and light-hearted manner, attempt to represent our occasional and futile efforts to disguise ourselves as something that does not truly reflect who we are, in order to blend into environments to which, deep down, we do not genuinely feel we belong. This idea was visually expressed through studio photographs depicting natural and artificial objects, humorously disguised with elements borrowed from different contexts.
A second group of students focused on the way people experience their relationships, through photographs portraying scenes of friendship and love captured in their spontaneity. The relationships we build every day with the people we care about can in fact be considered inner dwellings, places where — much like when we enter our own homes — we can feel truly free to be ourselves, without the need to pretend.
Finally, a third group critically explored the way we “inhabit” ourselves through photographs that, in an ironic and light-hearted manner, attempt to represent our occasional and futile efforts to disguise ourselves as something that does not truly reflect who we are, in order to blend into environments to which, deep down, we do not genuinely feel we belong. This idea was visually expressed through studio photographs depicting natural and artificial objects, humorously disguised with elements borrowed from different contexts.
