Casa Albero - Sleeve Magazine
In an era of underrepresented voices, we wanted to shout what has been abandoned, lost on track, forgotten by time and space. The photo shoot gives birth to a couple of lovers, living in the abandoned “Casa Albero” house. The space embraces them, gulps them down, and hides them from a cruel society. Its roots act as a double agent on the lovers: on one way, they experience naive, innocent feelings, shaped by a bubble which dilates time; on the other way, they are condemned to muteness and silence towards the outside vertigo, trapped inside an out-of-society tree. The collaboration with just graduated fashion designer Marco Bucchi made our concepts possible. The garments take back to life “love stories, memories, sensations, emotions” hibernated in anOther spatio-temporal universe. In between mouldy walls and broken windows, the lovers fluctuate in voluminous skirts, which also burden their muteness. Hibernating Love rotates between performative ambiguity and intimacy; it provides an alternative to the language of our society, a capitalist, Western, and male dominated history. The lovers are confined to an outside world due to the lack of their capacity to speak, therefore they represent a negative Other: there is no space for them in a language based society. Expressing themselves through another voice, that of love, they challenge the socio-cultural norms and they become rebels. After hibernation, the lovers re-born and actively offer an alternative perspective of communication.
In an era of underrepresented voices, we wanted to shout what has been abandoned, lost on track, forgotten by time and space. The photo shoot gives birth to a couple of lovers, living in the abandoned “Casa Albero” house. The space embraces them, gulps them down, and hides them from a cruel society. Its roots act as a double agent on the lovers: on one way, they experience naive, innocent feelings, shaped by a bubble which dilates time; on the other way, they are condemned to muteness and silence towards the outside vertigo, trapped inside an out-of-society tree. The collaboration with just graduated fashion designer Marco Bucchi made our concepts possible. The garments take back to life “love stories, memories, sensations, emotions” hibernated in anOther spatio-temporal universe. In between mouldy walls and broken windows, the lovers fluctuate in voluminous skirts, which also burden their muteness. Hibernating Love rotates between performative ambiguity and intimacy; it provides an alternative to the language of our society, a capitalist, Western, and male dominated history. The lovers are confined to an outside world due to the lack of their capacity to speak, therefore they represent a negative Other: there is no space for them in a language based society. Expressing themselves through another voice, that of love, they challenge the socio-cultural norms and they become rebels. After hibernation, the lovers re-born and actively offer an alternative perspective of communication.
Photography: @pour_______
Styling: @strafiko
Photography assistant: @pai.mei Assistant: @so.f.fusa
Models: @julius.westra @is.ricci
Fashion: @_ocramarco_
Styling: @strafiko
Photography assistant: @pai.mei Assistant: @so.f.fusa
Models: @julius.westra @is.ricci
Fashion: @_ocramarco_