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DESCRIPTION
The ceremony, like a life, reveals the eternal dance between the mask we wear in solemn moments like a wedding and the true essence of our soul. Inspired by the concepts of cognitive relativism narrated by Luigi Pirandello in "Uno, nessuno, e Centomila" and the theory of the "person" by Gustav Jung, these photos aim to capture the fragile beauty of human interiority, often hidden behind the veils of social conventions. Marriage is seen as a ceremony that celebrates idealization and perfection, but at the same time obscures complexity and true human nature.

AUTHOR
Photographer with a penchant for creative visual storytelling. They completed a specialization in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania and further specialized in Ceremony Photography with a thesis titled "Ceremony as a Life," which will soon be published by Gutemberg Edizioni publishing house. An anthropologist and educator, they work with both public and private institutions. Currently, they hold the position of Assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania.

Claudio Castilletti was born in Vittoria in Sicily in 1990. He trained at the S. Fiume State Institute of Art in Comiso. Here he creates a picture for the "Art donated" event, a fundraiser for the Maria Paternò Arezzo hospital in Ragusa.
At the age of 19 he moved to Catania, where he obtained a three-year degree at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania in Scenography for New Media. During these years, he worked as a scenographer for the film - documentary “Vespero” directed by Nicolò Cappello and Alessandro Gravano, and, in 2013, he designed an exhibition set-up for a culinary exhibition in a Brussels gallery.
In 2014 he moved to Vibo Valentia where he graduated from the Fidia Academy of Fine Arts in Painting. In this year he has the good fortune to meet and work with Gaspare di Caro world-famous illuminographer and artist with whom he creates the graphic lighting projects of Mondial Granit S.P.A. In 2015, supported by the master Gesualdo Spampinato, he began a path of pictorial research on expressive freedom. One of the paintings created is exhibited at the LIMEN Museum of Contemporary ART in Vibo Valentia selected during the LIMEN ARTE international competition.