In Borutta a photographic project to draw attention to depopulation
The photographer Marco Ceraglia and the cultural association Ordinarimai are making it
A small community, photos as pieces of a large collective portrait which is consigned to history and which at the same time draws attention to depopulation.
“Ecce Homo, how what one is presented” is the title (with reference to Nietzche) of the photographic project in progress which since 2021 has already involved most of the 246 inhabitants of Borutta , a small town in the Mejlogu in the province of Sassari, inviting them to pose in individual portraits created by the artist Marco Ceraglia at the inside their homes, in the streets of the town, in their daily meeting places.
The participatory art project, carried out with the Ordinarimai cultural association, will be presented on Saturday in Borutta, in Corso Trieste from 7 pm combines visual research and anthropology, to draw attention to the active resistance of the small towns of Sardinia to the spread of depopulation.
During the evening, a first version of the documentary accompanying the project supported by the town's municipal administration, the Fondazione di Sardegna and the CSC Carbonia Humanitarian Society will be screened, and the first photographic portraits of the inhabitants can be admired in the streets.
