Waithood
Domenico Camarda
Waithood, a portmanteau composed of “wait” and “adulthood”, is a period of stagnation in the lives of the youth, unemployed and newly graduated, in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), India, etc. It can be described as “a kind of prolonged adolescence”, during which a large proportion of these guys spend its best years waiting.
Waiting for a job, waiting for economic independency, waiting for the decisive transition from adolescence to adulthood.
After the 2008 economic crisis, this term can be easily applied to the young europeans as well, who, after having ended their studies, start to wait, seek and hope.
The national borders do not exist anymore, it is way easier to travel, searching desperately somewhere else what you cannot find in your own country, in order to stop waiting.
It’s been a while since I have reached this life’s period and it is hard to see the end of it.
Trying to find a solution I’ve started to move myself, almost compulsively, between Portugal, Italy and United Kingdom, hoping to be fulfilled in one of these countries.
My generation grew up with the belief that everything it’s possible, but, finally, it finds itself alone and hopeless, with no inclination to compromise.
Escaping elsewhere seems one of the best reliefs, but it leads to more loneliness and indifference from the surrounding world.
The stability’s search ends up in wandering, without any direction.
Domenico Camarda (La Spezia, b. 1990) graduated in Science of Communication at the University of Bologna and in Photography and Visual Design at NABA.
In the autumn of 2014 he worked at Pierre Von Kleist Editions, and Pedro Alfacinha Gallery, both based in Lisbon, where he learned and deepened his interest in author
photography and art publishing.
In the 2015 He lived and worked in London for Amelia Troubridge, as assistant photographer, curating the editing and the layout of her last publications.
He currently lives in Turin where, after having collaborated for MeMo Mag and ARTUU, he works as freelancer and on its own research projects.
Camarda’s artistic practice focuses on and explores themes such as the construction of identity, and collective phenomena that affect and define the lives of each single individual. Creating a series of dreamlike and suggestive images, he wants to ask questions and trigger reflections, rather than giving simple answers. His works have been exhibited, among others, at the Triennale of Milano and CAMERA of Torino.
Liquido
The concept of identity, like the one of reality, has multiplied, expanded, leaving room for an undefined world, where fixity has been replaced by a variety of possible forms.
As we please, We can built and deconstruct everything, but, as counter point, this lead us at an increasingly individualistic society, where bonds are always more liquid and unstable.
In Western contemporaneity, indeed, societies are increasingly fragile: individuals, distant from one another, are let free to define themself, in a total lack of points of reference to tend towards, or with which identify themself.
Individuals are therefore liquid, they can continually reaffirm themselves according to their fantasies, they are identities without a well-defined shape, constantly changing it depending on the container that contains them momentarily.
Their individuality is constantly changing, capable of being everywhere, but that nowhere stays long.