BAR RINASCIMENTO
(the earthquake in Amatrice)
Bachelor thesis project
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2016 - 2017
Free University of Bolzano
Relators: Nitzan Cohen, Valeria Burgio
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24.08.2016, 3.36 - 3.38 a.m.
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During the night the earth trembled in central Italy
and turned several towns in ruins. One of these towns was Amatrice.
The earthquake and all of its disastrous outcomes
are truly tragic. Yet a tragedy is never composed
only of tragedy. It encapsulates humour within it, understanding next to complete incomprehension,
it creates its own logic and rules, but also absolute chaos at the same time. It reveals moments, subtle details and new arrays of emotions, all of which are
so human.
A victim inevitably needs to divide one issue from
the other to deal with the situation, so also to narrate and understand, every element must be seen on its own to then compose the bigger image. The macro event unravelled in its micro elements seems more bearable.