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We live in a complex period, a historical phase in which the crisis brings us to a radical change in our lifestyles and in which job insecurity takes away the trust, even more than hope, in the future. Our sense of community is lost and almost absent, to the social disintegration we are experiencing: people tend to isolate more and more.

The photograph was made in the Certosa Reale in Collegno, which until 1993 was still the seat of the Psychiatric Hospital of Turin (Italy). This place evokes the collective concept of marginalization. Marginalization forced that, with different forms and contexts, continues to manifest itself in the present, without the need for bars on the windows or walls that impede access to the outside world. And it is from this consideration that opens a debate on the causes and effects of marginalization, even when it is not "chronic" or formally imposed, but is the result of society and contemporary dynamics.