Lock art – A journey around the world from living room to kitchen

This exhibit, created in collaboration with ArtFullFrame, offers a fresh look at the worldwide pandemic through the critical eye of 15 international photographers. The curator of this exhibit, in the capacity of artistic director and project leader, is Chiara Candellone Sticca.

The launching of the exhibit take places on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. The salesian Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, 10th Successor of Don Bosco, will graciously host the event and officially inaugurate the completion of the final galleries of the Museum which are dedicated to the most significant personalities of the salesian educative mission.

THE EXHIBIT

The fifteen photographers participating in the exhibit represent Turkey, Belgium, Spain, Holland, France, Denmark, Philippines, Russia, Japan, Italy, Argentina, Zimbabwe and Senegal. The world tour they offer begins and ends in Turin, as the first and last frames are the work of two photographers from Turin.

All fifteen photographers are young people, which reflects Don Bosco’s passion to nurture the souls of the young by calling forth their unique gifts in the service of others. Each photographer will exhibit two captures, exceptional for their capacity to draw the visitor into a particular experience of the pandemic, an experience that in many ways was different around the world, yet sadly familiar.

Through the silent power of the lens, these photographers have captured invisible biographies that speak volumes, lives that go on in spite of setbacks, lives which, during the pandemic, we could only observe from behind the “lens” of our windows.
The exhibit tells the story of everyday life in which balconies, hallways, living rooms and backyards become the global stage for our collective vulnerability and resilience. The photos recount a real-life drama in which disorientation and helplessness in the face of pandemic protocols fuel a desire to escape. The exhibit takes you through motionless cities where the rhythms of normal daily were put on hold and where solitude, paradoxically, became the unifying factor across the planet.

Casa Don Bosco Museum, as the venue for the exhibit, becomes the platform for so many ordinary heroes of everyday life who helped us to navigate the complexity and uncertainty of unchartered waters, to rediscover the beauty of relationships, and to appreciate the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Stefania De Vita
Director of the Casa Don Bosco Museum

“Museums are compasses which guide you on a fascinating adventure, inside and outside yourself. Visitors of LockArt will enter foreign worlds and embrace new cultures through the lens of young photographers. The lockdown experience became our common path, creating unbreachable distances even within the smallest spaces. We all missed the usual expressions of affection, the rhythms of family life and cherished contact with our roots. What better place to reconnect than at Casa Don Bosco Museum” ?

Art Full Frame.

Art Full Frame (AFF) is a photography agency based in London and Rome, specializing in the organization of photographic exhibitions (solo and group) and international photography competitions managed through its online platform.

AFF’s platform gives individual photographers the opportunity to create their own portfolio, which is visible to the photo contest judges. Each photographer has the opportunity to create his or her own booklet with their most significant projects. They are assisted in the construction phase of the photographic portfolio and in the design phase of the exhibit by the artistic director of AFF.

Although AFF is relatively young operation (2019), and despite the pandemic, it has managed to organize three photo competitions and two photo exhibitions. The photography of 33 talented international artists were featured at the 2019 & 2020 London Photo Show, hosted by the Barge House Gallery, OXO Tower in London.