Burka-Burqa -la metafora dell’unicità dell’individuo- (open project)

The project Burqa–Burka is a ‘work in progress’ currently made of 82 “blue hands portraits”, forming a twenty meter wall, which are going to grow up to a total of one hundred . They are portrays of people chosen without any genre, sex, race and age discrimination, with their painted blue hands in front of the face, forming a kind of “window” through which it is possible to see only their eyes, which unequivocally call to mind a burka. The contrast arising from the blue hands, the color of skin and the one of the eyes has to be interpreted as the metaphor of the uniqueness of the human being that, instead of the burka, whose aim is hiding and deleting the personality of everybody puts it on, manages to emerge and burst thanks to the unmistakable efficacy of a glance which cannot do without reflecting its own personality.