Every place has not only tangible characteristics but also a stratification of feelings, dreams, tragedies, individual and collective stories. Some "recognize" not so much situations they experienced directly but rather the substance of "anonymous stories" that for deep reasons touch their sensitivity.
In “The Quite Morning Breeze”, Orith Youdovich walks along the paths and gardens of Santa Maria della Pietà, the former mental hospital in Rome now turned into a public park, clearly feeling the excruciating pain that this space continues to emanate. The dimension of the universe of concentration camps for alleged mentally ill evokes quite clearly other concentration camps that have dramatically marked the history of the Twentieth Century.
The idea of segregation and persecution practices, both senseless, thus become two sides of the same coin that Orith Youdovich re-elaborates through her personal gaze and perception, creating what might be called the aesthetics of individual alienation and of social discomfort.
© Punto di Svista
