22. EL loco
“When the pandemic stopped the clock on the busy existence in Mexico City, he feared the "real mental damage caused by such a long period of self-isolation." At first, he wandered around the closed and empty city making documents of the moment. He captured a lone street cleaner on a quiet boulevard, an empty coffee counter covered in black and yellow zip tie, a lone sidewalk vendor hoping to sell shiny face shields. “But I started to be afraid to leave my house. I was afraid of going crazy and sinking into depression. The days were all the same and fear and frustration for the future increased ”. To find a way forward and express his feelings, the artist created this most elusive image, saturated with the symbolism of death and life, separation and connection. It is from the time of Covid-19, but somehow beyond”.
From: https://www.artintheplagueyear.com/Stefano-Morrone
One of this photos was part of the exhibition “Art In The Plague Year” By the UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography, 2021.