Battiloro Ciro
SILENCE IS A GIFT
Like a door into their intimacy and captivating simplicity, Silence is a Gift gently celebrates the inhabitants of Southern Italy, a region still scarred by modern tragedies.
Ciro Battiloro "Silence is a Gift"
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Rione Sanità (Naples), Santa Lucia (Cosenza), Torre del Greco. They are places of the working class that for years and still suffer situations of social disadvantage and marginalisation, and which today are changing due to processes of gentrification and touristisation.But they are places where, above all, an authenticity of the human being is preserved and this is a wealth. These places in Southern Italy carry scars of incurable wounds on the walls and on the flesh of its inhabitants. In those wounds lay the historical memory and the real face of people. Their names are Alfonso, Elena, Marco, Stefania, to name a few. I have seen new lives being born, children becoming teenagers, and then parents in their turn. I also had to say goodbye. I don’t focus so much on the marginality, but rather on the extraordinary vitality.
Silence is a Gift is about love and loneliness, life and death, pain and joy — but most importantly, about intimacy and resistance. Probably only those who have experienced great loneliness can truly be together with others.
"In those wounds lay the historical memory and the real face of people."