Guilherme Bergamini
I Am, You Are, He Is, We Are, You Are, They Are
The world evolves in different ways, at different times, for the most diverse reasons. It should be noted that while in early twentieth-century Europe scientists such as Carl Gustav Jung, Sigmund Freud, and many others were devoted to understanding the questions and mysteries of the human mind, were inaugurated in Brazil, in the City of Barbacena, the Cologne Hospital, which was to be the scene of one of the largest barbarism ever committed in our country - even despite the fact that Brazil had also produced scientists committed to the essential ethics and the noblest humanitarian issues. The verb to be, conjugated in the present tense of the affirmative, definitely becomes the only true answer to the archetypal question posed by William Shakespeare, plus the item on madness: To be mad, or not to be mad… same verb, conjugated at the same time and in the same way, the only and irrevocable answer to the same question, plus the item on individual and social responsibility with regard to the treatment of mentally ill individuals and their families: I am responsible , you are responsible, he is responsible ... and so on. Responsibility extends to episodes, such as the so-called Brazilian Holocaust, that are no longer repeated; that prejudice against mental suffering and all pertinent questions is definitively removed from our societies; to review all concepts of health, its maintenance and cultivation, in all its areas. It is everyone's responsibility to review the concepts of illness - treatments, coping and cures. Finally, it is imperative to make it clear to all that health, in all its aspects, is not a privilege, source of enrichment or responsibility from which individuals or societies can be exempted. Either mankind, at the present moment, decides to evolve entirely, in all respects, or declare itself fit for extinction itself.
"I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are”, October 5, 2016, digital photography, 50cm x 75cm
Text: Luiz Gomide - Scenic Artist, member of the cast of the play In the Basements of Madness.
Photography and design: Guilherme Bergamini.
Painting: Clifford Dutra - Mixed Technique, Sublimation on Paper and Nanjing Watering, inspired by photography by Luiz Alfredo Ferreira, photographic reporter for the extinct magazine O Cruzeiro.
Reporter photographic and visual artist, Guilherme Bergamini is Brazilian and graduated in Journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and social political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini participated in collective exhibitions in 29 countries.
CV: https://www. guilhermebergamini.com/autor/