Realised in cooperation with London-based
Photocaptionist
and Discipula, the exhibition is linked with the central theme of
Photo Month 2014
through questions of historical memory.
Inspired by Corrado Alvaro’s
Man is Strong
, a novel that delves into social relations within a dictatorship,
Tommaso Tanini
explores the common procedures through which the one-time secret service of East Germany (the Stasi) manipulated emotions. The disquieting, haunting question in Tanini’s photoworks is how one can possibly turn against one’s loved ones instead of rebelling against an
oppressing and terrorizing regime
.
