Ritdiena

“In this period of my life, maybe because of my age, I often try to understand which one could be my own way and my future, and I always find myself talking with my contemporaries about the hard times for our generation. So when I heard about the strong economic crisis in the baltic countries I immediately thought it would have been very interesting to see how the youngsters were facing that situation over there. In Latvia the changes happened really quickly and I wanted to know how that crisis modified the outlooks and the idea of the future for the young generation. This is also the reason why my project doesn’t focus so much on the crisis, but much more on the mood and the feelings. The crisis is just the context in which I attempted to know and show the people. The final outcome is a work which tries to tell the sensations of that generation. They’re living these time very confusely, without being the cause of that crisis and neither feeling themselves as the solution for it. The majority of the young people (not all of them, I have to say) is just waiting; they are like in a bubble, in a kind of limbo which is very difficult to escape from, also because their patriotism and the attachment to their country”.

www.robertoboccaccino.it

[interview by Elena Arcaro]