Starting from May 30, 2014, the project room of the Man Museum will host Gianluca Vassallo’s Privato project. Ideal completion of a reflection begun with Pubblico – a photographic work, created a year ago in Nuoro, aimed at activating a joint reflection on the concepts of society and individual – Privato inverts the perspective by configuring itself as a collective laboratory, not a “call” of citizens to participate in common spaces, but a “bringing closer” of the museum to the community through research and active sharing of family memories.
The process, which over the course of a month will lead to the creation of a shared work, involves offering the museum a family photo, a private image, an expression of intimate memories, which will in turn be photographed upon delivery. and presented within the exhibition spaces, before being returned to the rightful owner.
Thanks to the use of an instant camera with self-developing film, the artist’s intervention will not give life to a simple duplication of the image, but rather to a new unicum, a new “original” image, conceived as an exclusive and unrepeatable piece of a large mosaic of memories that from private become collective heritage, an expression not of a virtual community, but of a truly existing community, alive, present, not folded into a stereotyped perception of itself.

Family photos can be delivered to the MAN museum starting next May 30th at 7.00 pm, coinciding with the opening of the Passo a due exhibition. The vanguards of the movement. On June 29th, with the closing of the project, the snapshots taken from the first original will find refuge in a collection. The research of Gianluca Vassallo, an artist of Neapolitan origins who lives and works in Sardinia, is focused on the analysis of contradictions in power relations: individual and city, power and subjection, essence and representation. The media he uses are mainly photography and video.