Caro Diario — Photoproject Live

Spazio Matta, 8 March 2026 — a performance of photography, theatre, music and dance

26 March 2026 1270 words 6 minutes

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When a group of photographers, guided by a master of rare humanity, embarks on a different journey — an inward one — the impact of the exhibition becomes personal and revelatory. Every project has its own precise and distinct identity: from conception to selection, from the choice of words as a complementary element to the final exhibition. It writes the grammar of a translation that turns silences into images.

I am very glad to have taken part as a prompter in this collective reflection, invited by Pino Giannini.
In these projects, photography does not merely stop time. It releases wonder.

For some, the diary evokes a past made of nostalgia and roots; for others, the experiment is contemporary, intimate and introspective. A way of photographing gradually emerges as a shared writing of light, creating new bonds or helping to rediscover old and familiar ones, often taken for granted. In this space between what is seen and what is read, some find the most honest way to tell their story, to make memories more inhabitable, to take responsibility for their own inner time, and to find the courage of emptiness and imperfection.

For everyone, photography becomes an instrument for knowing oneself and the world, in a silent dialogue between what you see and what you feel…

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Gustav Jung, The Red Book

Alessandra Arcieri, with the suggestions of Pino Giannini’s students

CARO DIARIO

Photo Project — Pensieri fotografici

Caro Diario — Photo Project was presented on Sunday 8 March 2026 at Spazio Matta in Pescara as a live performance dedicated to photography understood not merely as image, but as emotional trace, personal memory and shared storytelling.

The project grew out of the individual works of Pino Giannini’s students, gathered into a common narrative from which words, images, movement and soundscapes took shape. Each author approached the theme of the diary from a personal point of view: family memory, identity, the intimacy of inner landscapes, fragility, colour, nostalgia and the need to transform a biographical fragment into a visible form.

In this context, photography did not remain confined to the wall or to the print. It became stage material: a sequence of projected images, crossed by the voice, supported by a sonic dramaturgy and accompanied by free dance, constantly listening to what appeared on the screen.

Individual works for a shared team

Curated by Pino Giannini and Alessandra Arcieri

Voice: Alessandra Arcieri
Dance: Bruna Cerasa
Soundscaping: Luca Cipressi

The photographic works presented:

Luca Sanese — Il calendario dei ricordi (The Calendar of Memories)
Anna D’Arcangelo — Vecchio diario (Old Diary)
Lorella Dubini — Intimi paesaggi (Intimate Landscapes)
Anna Maria Bruno — Caro papà (Dear Dad)
Chantal Gouby — Green Days / Rhapsody in Blue / Simply Red
Luana Pasqualone — Anima fragile (Fragile Soul)
Alessandra D’Urbano — Senza titolo (Untitled)
Sandro Veglianti — Senza titolo (Untitled)
Tania Salvatore — Senza titolo (Untitled)

Photography, theatre, music and dance met in a simple and precious form: a mixture of art, passion and friendship, made possible by the willingness of the photographer-narrators to share a part of their own intimacy.

From the diary to the stage

A diary is an ambiguous object: it preserves, yet at the same time it reveals; it protects, yet it can become testimony; it is born as a private voice, yet sometimes it finds the courage to step into the open. In Caro Diario, this ambiguity was transformed into a scenic device.

The photographs were ordered and assembled into a video projected on the big screen. The voice of Alessandra Arcieri interpreted the texts proposed by the authors, giving body to the literary and theatrical dimension of the project. Bruna Cerasa danced while allowing herself to be carried through music, words and images, without reducing movement to a simple illustration of the visual material. My contribution, through soundscaping, was to build a sonic environment capable of holding together the different emotional thresholds of the narrative: memory, suspension, fragility, and the sudden apparition of a private image becoming shareable.

The result was a small multidisciplinary score, where each language kept its own autonomy while also finding a shared point of listening.

An artistic network between Chieti and Pescara

Caro Diario was born within a web of artistic relationships strongly connected to the Chieti and Pescara area. It was not merely an isolated event, but a meeting point among different paths: professional photography, music education, writing, theatre, contemporary dance and performative research.

Pino Giannini

Pino Giannini is a professional photographer based in Chieti, active in portraiture, events, wedding photography, advertising, corporate and industrial photography. In his official profile, he expresses particular attention to spontaneous images and respect for the people portrayed — an element that also emerges in the intimate nature of Caro Diario. His activity is not limited to photographic services: since 2016, he has combined his professional work with photography courses at different levels, transforming technical experience into a path of visual education.

An important aspect of his work is his bond with the cultural life of Chieti: Giannini is listed as photographer for the concert season of the Teatro Marrucino in Chieti and for the international classical music festival Chieti Classica. This relationship with the stage, with music and with the documentation of live events helps explain the natural evolution of a project such as Pensieri fotografici, where photography is not only the production of images but also collective storytelling, public restitution and scenic presence.

Alessandra Arcieri

Alessandra Arcieri brings to the project the dimension of words, voice and narrative construction. An Abruzzo-based author, director and screenwriter, and a member of Writers Guild Italia, she has worked across television, cinema, documentary, music video and education. Her professional biography includes experience as a television author, screenwriter and director, with works also distributed on international platforms.

In Caro Diario, her intervention is especially delicate: she does not impose an external story onto the photographs, but lends voice to the words of the authors, transforming the texts into scenic presence. Her role is both dramaturgical and interpretative: she accompanies the viewer through the passage from photography as an object to photography as storytelling.

Bruna Cerasa

Bruna Cerasa moves across dance, writing and performance. She also trained at the Centro di Formazione Professionale Progetto Danza in Chieti, directed by Tiziano Di Muzio, and joined the TDM Dance Group in 2018. Her path combines bodily practice, poetry and attention to the contemporary stage, with experience in dance, theatre and performance projects.

In Caro Diario, her dance is not decoration, but a physical translation of listening. The body becomes the place where projected images, spoken words and processed sounds find an immediate, fragile and human response. It is a movement that does not explain the photographs, but moves through them.

The live video

The video documentation preserves a trace of the performance and of its balance among languages. It inevitably remains a partial testimony: a live event also lives through spaces, silences, the gaze of the audience and that particular concentration created when several disciplines share the same time.