Silence, desolation, solitude. Empty squares, deserted villages.
More than four years have passed since the first case of Covid in Italy, and from that day on, the world has never been the same.
From May 20th to June 20th, the Remo Gaibazzi Association will host the photographic exhibition "A Pasqua c’era il sole" ("At Easter, the Sun Was Shining"), created with the aim of documenting, showcasing, and remembering Covid-19 in Parma.
The project, composed of over 40 photographs, begins on March 9, 2020, the day Italy declared a nationwide lockdown, with the first images of a deserted Parma seen from above, and then chronologically progresses through the entire 2020-2021 period, covering the three intense phases of the pandemic: the lockdown, the reopenings, and the year-end transition, marked by the first Christmas in history under lockdown, contrasted with the hope brought by the first vaccines arriving in the country.
The aim of this exhibition is to tell, with the transparency and rawness that only photography can offer, how our lives changed during this period and how everything that we Parmesans, or more generally, we Italians, had always taken for granted, was in an instant shattered by an invisible virus. To achieve this, the exhibition will consist solely of black and white photographs, a stylistic choice that best represents a period entirely devoid of color.
