Rest Days
Luca Sironi is a Milan based photographer and filmmaker who recently completed his conceptual photography project titled Rest Days. The project comprises 24 colour photographs depicting a series of closed shop shutters.
Sironi explains:
The shutters hide what’s inside, becoming apparently identical to each other, and in their repetition, looking more and more like a minimalist series of ordered anonymous headstones.
The photos, taken in the towns of Bussero, Caponago, Carugate, Cernusco soul Naviglio, Gorgonzola and Pessano con Bornago, represent the change over the last 25 years in people’s social habits on Sundays (our typical rest day) in the areas these shops reside. In recent years the result is as if shops have changed their function, becoming symbols of the inhibition that consumerism exercises on spontaneous social aggregation, rather than useful daily facilities.
I love the impact these photos make as a collective.
- 08.10.2011 .
- Carl MH Barenbrug .
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- Art & Illustration + Photography
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- Building + Conceptual art
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Looks like some company has the shop door market pretty well cornered.
beautiful project … these shutters in the set look like graves … where are people, at home? outside the pictures’ borders … maybe buried inside the shops? … abscence is a powerful presence in this work … i love it!
where are people?
hanging around in a commercial centre where the shutters never rest.
On sundays the bring there their kids, they chit chat with their friends, take a coffee or an ice-cream and look at the stuff in the shops they don’t have the money to buy…