A KALTBLUT exclusive. Art director, fashion designer and stylist is Alessandro Chelazzi. The model is Luca, signed at Agency C models CREW. Photography by Mary Ianniciello. Make-up by Stella Izzo. The stylist is Francesca Riccardi. Special thanks to Archivio Casa Morra. Location is Giulia Luongo.
The man, slave to reproduce the canons that he himself has preset, decides to destabilize the codes of an ancient system: What if the roles are reversed? What if there are no more predetermined patterns? What if you conceived the essence of things rather than their form? What do you want? And especially who are you?
I’m a man,
I’m a woman I am heaven,
I am earth I’m all,
I’m nothing I am the smile of a child,
I am her mother who
holds his hand and
teaches him to love,
are a boundless world,
in this infinite universe.
Prologue:
They’ll paint your dreams black,
will destroy your body and
like a sorrowful Madonna,
will crown your face with tears,
clothing your soul with fear,
because you’re “different”,
go beyond all things.
Because you can’t walk, you fly.
“Have the courage to be yourself”:
so he whispered like a mother,
took me by the hand and taught
to love me,
to love every world
because different from ours,
different as well as similar;
boundless as it is small;
as strong as fragile and
unique as the heart pure of a mother.
“Mother is a project about me and all those people who struggle every day to be accepted by others as human beings, as unique beings, as people. This story is the story of me and many people discriminated against for sexual orientation, gender, nationality, religion, physical appearance, the way of dressing and much more.
With this concept I want to give back the true meaning of person, family and love that I synthesized with the word ‘mother’: the maternal figure is not only that of those who create you biologically speaking, but of one or one of those who grow up. Family, people and love, should not be preset things, as “mass-produced”, but are essences that go beyond their own matter.
For centuries and still today the discrimination due to the fear of what is “different”, have raised walls, the same ones that collapse thanks to subversive actions and revenge by those who no longer accept to submit to the stereotyped social norms; The rubble of these collapsed walls is a symbol of freedom but at the same time they have caused many wounds and many victims. Today I want to dedicate this project, my attention, to all those who fought for their rights before me, for having brought me here today, aware and free to express my being. I want to be able to break down those walls of hate and remind everyone that we are made of love before we are even “social animals”
– Kicked out of the house by her parents because she’s gay: “You suck, I’ll kill you if I see you”
– Gay couples assaulted only because the two boys/girls held hands;
– “two parents of the same sex? – A heresy, a devilry, a family needs a man and a woman” concept of those who have not yet understood that: “where there is love, there is family”;
– 69 the number of countries where homosexuality is a CRIME
-11 the number of countries where homosexuality is punished or punishable by the DEATH PENALTY
– 27 the number of countries where homosexuality is punished with a 10-year prison sentence
– 30 the number of countries where homosexuality is punishable by up to eight years of imprisonment;
– 42 the number of countries in which the freedom of expression of the LGTBQIA+ community is RESTRICTED or PROHIBITED;
– 62% is the percentage of LGTBQIA+ people who, in Italy, AVOID HOLDING BY HAND, partner or partner;
– 36% is the percentage of Italian minors in the LGTBQIA+ community who, after coming out of Gay Help Line, reported to have been REJECTED BY THE FAMILY;
– 17% is the percentage of Italian adults of the LGTBQIA+ community who, after turning to Gay Help Line after coming out, reported to have been kicked out of the house or to have lost financial support from the family;
-Seid died at 20 “I feel the looks disgusted and frightened of everyone. The people at work did not want to be served by me”;
– Iran, wanted to escape from his country, but did not make it in time; 20 years decapitated by his family because gay;
– some demonstrations of Italians suffering from xenophobia: “Brown is now in fashion, even the Chinese”; “It is natural that males are passionate about technical disciplines. The females are more suited for nurturing”.
Each of us can be a mother: a house that warmly welcomes anyone who enters it.”
Art director, fashion designer and stylist is Alessandro Chelazzi / Instagram: @alessandro.chelazzi
Photography by Mary Ianniciello / instagram: @yram_innai
Stylist and assistant ph is Francesca Riccardi / instagram: @francy_riccardi
Make-up by Stella Izzo / instagram: @stellart_mua
Model is Luca / instagram: @lucaisaiah signed at Agency C models CREW / instagram: @cmodelscrewGuide
Location is Giulia Luongo / instagram: @giuliaaluongoo
Special thanks to Archivio Casa Morra / instagram: @archiviocasamorra
Dress, shoes, hat create by fashion designer Alessandro Chelazzi / instagram: @alessandro.chelazzi
