LA COLONIA2012document and archive image20x16,5 cm La colonia is a work focused on the unavoidable relationship between text and image, and  their two levels - the textual and the figurative. The title and the text usually provide a clue to the image, in this case they become a comment on it. Remembering the dictatorial ways of propaganda, the title and the text talk about the image of a group of children leaving for ‘colonie elioterapiche’, provided by the fascists, with the aim to exercise educative control and a targeted propaganda.

LA COLONIA
2012
document and archive image
20x16,5 cm

La colonia is a work focused on the unavoidable relationship between text and image, and  their two levels - the textual and the figurative. The title and the text usually provide a clue to the image, in this case they become a comment on it. Remembering the dictatorial ways of propaganda, the title and the text talk about the image of a group of children leaving for ‘colonie elioterapiche’, provided by the fascists, with the aim to exercise educative control and a targeted propaganda.