Dario Li Gioi

Struggle - Frammenti di Lotta is a work about women and men in struggle. The right to work, women's rights, freedom of expression, rejection of war, immigration and cultural policies, housing rights, and environmental demands are under attack in Italy.

Since the first days of the Meloni government, the most right-wing government in the history of the Republic, movements have begun to challenge its actions, rediscovering vigor and propulsive force, despite their fragmented composition.

The squares, as living ecosystems, are a web of struggles, demands, desires, fragments of utopias—transversal ecosystems—against an arrogant political, social, and economic model.

Each photo represents a splinter, a fragment, a body fighting for the resistance of an idea. Struggle - Frammenti di lotta tells the story of the squares and bodies in movement, or, if you will, the movement of resisting bodies. Bodies that arrive, arrive at physical confrontation, or are shadows amid smoke bombs. The body, power, joy as mockery. And anger. Anger exists and is proportional to the fear of the future, the anger that takes to the streets as a place of emotional opposition and vindication, as an antidote to a discomfort marginalized by an indifferent, manipulative and repressive system of power.