The images of Lorenzo Tugnoli, the only Italian Pulitzer Prize winner in 2019, in an interdisciplinary project in the context of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation for an individual and civic reflection on the narrative of the most recent military escalation in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon in the spaces of the former Convent of San Francesco di Bagnacavallo a few kilometers from Ravenna.
The exhibition presents 40 large-format photographs by Lugo-born photojournalist Lorenzo Tugnoli that offer an unprecedented individual and civic reflection on the difficulties, gaps, complicity, manipulation and silences that characterise the attitude of the media and the public towards the conflict between Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, which began on 7th October 2023.
Inspiring the title of the exhibition and opening the exhibition are the lines of a poem by Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian poet and intellectual who was killed in Gaza in an Israeli raid at the beginning of the conflict, on the night of 6th-7th December 2023. The poem closes with ‘If I should die, let it be a tale’: a warning not to forget and an invitation to witness history.
Taking into account the lack of testimonies and voices of credibility witnessed during this time span, the exhibition offers an analogue and multimedia analysis of the various levels of failure of language: from the lack of consensus around the definitions of the events taking place to the political acrobatics to circumvent the dictates of international laws. The path of the exhibition is built on real data: from Lorenzo Tugnoli’s photographic documentation collected since October 2023 in Palestine and Lebanon, to the visual elaboration of data and statistics.
The exhibition also includes a series of side events such as meetings, shows and talks, to discover them click here
