There are images that are not merely seen: they are carried within.
From one of these — Mohammed Salem's photograph, World Press Photo of the Year 2024 — a sculpture in Carrara marble was born. A mother holding to her breast a body that is no more. A face without features, because it is every face.
Pietà is a collective project: sculpture, text, photography, thought. A work that travels, that holds silence, that asks to be inhabited.
Its message is simple and radical: human life deserves respect, always.
Sculpture — Filippo Tincolini
Author · Performer — Federico Quaranta
Photography — Laura Veschi
Address — Andrea Pezzi
Inspired by the photograph by Mohammed Salem — World Press Photo of the Year 2024