INSOMNIA

Insomnia is an experimental project by Thiago Dezan and Infinite that connects documentary photography and visual arts to tell the story of a wretched world.

Through a critical and political lens, they examine particular aspects of our society; a society that too often does not understand how mainstream culture is, above all, an instrument to justify oppression.

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Insomnia is the desire for a dream you never had, insomnia is the worst nightmare you lived awake. Insomnia is the seek for answers you might never get. But you did asked the right questions, thats maybe the comfort you can have, to try and fail to sleep one more night. Is a research through the worst in our world, an attempt of understanding society through its cracks.

Insomnia on view at Crack Festival in Rome, Italy.

Insomnia on view at PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan, Italy.

Have you ever had that gut feeling saying what you see is not true, and what you can’t see is the real thing? Almost as if you could touch what is not there, as if your eyes were playing you. You can picture, imagine, but it is all an invention, because the material world says so.

If your eyes are playing you, maybe your brain can guess what the reality is not showing. This work is about that, to portray what is missing but you can feel. Is about wonder. Is guessing the invisible truth.

As invisible as love, as untouchable as rage.

This work is very real, documentary in a sense, but is also a documentation of the gut feeling, of the brain working to make sense of everything.

It’s about what you never see and keep you awake at night.

It’s is not about daydream, it's about insomnia.