Leonardo Caffo
a cancellato UNIFORM project that investigates how different people and communities think beyond their disciplines to open new cultural perspectives
WRITTEN BY FRANCESCA DEL BOCA
PHOTOGRAPHED BY FEDERICA COCCIRO
TRANSLATED BY FRANCESCA QUAGLIA
“I liked the idea that culture could protect, that it could be a sort of barrier from evilness and from what doesn’t work in the world”
“After all, how can we really be creative if we’re always interconnected? Ideas need solitude. They need space from others, fresh air. By having it all today, we’ve lost the infinite. We’re always informed, always close, always pleased with something. Always waiting for the future, but nostalgic about the past.”
“And then, freedom. That very thing we all fight for with our teeth. A civil disobedience, silent, gentle. The capability of leaving those very cages in which we self isolate, the boundaries within which we imprison ourselves.”
Leonardo Caffo is professor of Aesthetics of Fashion, Media and Design and Semiotics of Art. He writes for the “Corriere della Sera,” holds regular columns in “Internazionale,” “Lampoon” and “Interni”. His latest books include Costruire Futuri (Bompiani 2020) and Quattro capanne. O della semplicità (Nottetempo 2020). He directs the magazine “Parola,” the publisher of the international magazine Flash Art, and the Mater Matuta Master in Curatorial Studies for the Mediterranean at the Abadir Academy of Design in Sicily.
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