The Business of Living is a work, inspired by the diaries of Cesare Pavese,
about the experience of time and the reminiscence that stays from the passing days. To live like one does a
task, like something that needs its own proper order, as if it was something one has to do in some office,
and the necessity, often mechanic and bureaucratic, of ordering time: to wake up, to eat, to think, to do,
to work, to sleep, to live. Yesterday, today, tomorrow.
This series of works, presented in
different sizes, are fragments chosen from a past life and of a space of complex time for the author. The
series is composed by simple photographic works, almost “tableaus” on the banality of the daily, staged for
this work in closed spaces and with very little or no connection to the outside world. They are pieces
turned towards itself, as if part of a diary of a time that seems to be endless. The photographs, with a
very strong symbolic language, that apparently seems to tell little or nothing at all, recall not only our
personal memory, but also representations present in Painting and Cinema, and which are therefore part of
the memory shared by our civilization.