Simonetta Fadda

Fashion Victims 2008

Digitized minidv video – PAL – 9 minutes

Women's bodies are the strongest symbol, the one that endures because they are used over and over again in fashion, in information, in advertising, in religion. A walk through the streets of cities and towns, while the gaze is lost among people who appear first of all as symbolic figures, incredibly ancient and contemporary at the same time. A series of portraits born from contradictory sensations, in the inability to answer a simple almost trivial question: if first of all we are a symbol, what space of autonomy remains for our subjectivity?