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The exhibition Prisons: the confined separation explores the theme of incarceration through a selection of contemporary photobooks and the photographic project Fine Pena Mai by Veronica Barbato.
Alongside the books, the exhibition presents Fine Pena Mai, that highlights the impact of incarceration not only on prisoners but also on their families and loved ones. The work portrays the invisible sentence borne by parents, children, partners, and companions—those who, despite having committed no crime, experience daily the consequences of imprisonment. Through powerful images and lyrical texts, Barbato reveals a reality made of absences, stigma, solitude, and endless waiting, exposing the fracture between inside and outside, where “outside” is never truly free.
The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the meaning of punishment and on how its effects extend far beyond prison walls. As both the books and Barbato’s photographs suggest, incarceration never concerns only the individual who is confined, but also a wider network of relationships, affections, and lives that are inevitably marked by it.