Renato Esposito's Visual Diary of Davide Iodice's "Pinocchio. Che cos'è una persona?" Published by Cue Press
"Pinocchio. Che cos'è una persona? di Davide Iodice. Diario visivo 2022-25," a photographic book by Renato Esposito, has been released by Cue Press. This volume chronicles three years of theatre production by Davide Iodice, documenting workshops, rehearsals, and performances starting from 2022, with a focus on young individuals with neurodiversity and disabilities. Through Esposito's lens, the book delves into the inquiry, "What is a person?" emphasizing relationships and everyday experiences within the company. The photographs showcase the bonds among performers, intentionally steering clear of depicting their conditions as anomalies. Esposito's work embodies the deep connection between photography and theatre, capturing moments that extend beyond the fleeting nature of performance. Guglielmo Verrienti contributed the photographs.
Key facts
- Cue Press published "Pinocchio. Che cos'è una persona? di Davide Iodice. Diario visivo 2022-25" by photographer Renato Esposito
- The book documents three years of photographic work around Davide Iodice's theatre production, beginning in 2022
- Iodice's production grew out of the Scuola Elementare del Teatro and involves young people with neurodiversity and disabilities
- The production uses Collodi's Pinocchio to pose the question "what is a person?", which also runs through Esposito's photographs
- Esposito focused on relationships between the director and performers and on the company's daily life, centering on bodies and relations
- The photographs avoid making the performers' condition the subject, so diversity is not presented as an exception to be displayed
- Three years of work produced an archive much larger than the images selected for the volume, with many images left out of the editing
- Photographs in the book are by Guglielmo Verrienti
Entities
Artists
- Renato Esposito
- Davide Iodice
- Guglielmo Verrienti
- Carlo Collodi
Institutions
- Cue Press
- Scuola Elementare del Teatro
- SegnOnline
- segnonline.it
- Rivista Segno
Locations
- Italy