Fabio Bucciarelli. Maiores Nostri

On January 2011, a referendum sanctions the independence of South Sudan asserting the birth of a new state and the separation from the Muslim north of the country. In spite of this and the great expectations of the younger state of the world, the conflict with the government in Khartoum because of the annexation of the oil fields doesn't finish. Since the end of 2013, the political confrontation between President Salva Kiir's Dinka ethnic group and his deputy, Riek Machar, Nuer, intensify and the hatred between the two ethnic groups increases until bring the Southern Sudan on the brink of civil war.
The personal exposure Maiores Nostri by Fabio Bucciarelli (Turin, 1980) is a selection of photos taken in the forgotten areas of the country, in the Cattle Camp of the Dinka ethnicity in early 2014.
Bucciarelli documents the African conflict that grips the country through his eyes authorial and with great empathy for the subject being photographed. "In the time spent in South Sudan, I realized how different African war from a Middle East. In Libya or Syria you could see the battle, savoring the smell of gunpowder, he cried the wounded and the dead. He photographed the bloodiest conflict in its early stages and inhuman. While the war in Africa is living in his everyday life ', in the faces of the people, abandoned to their fate, imprisoned without the possibility' to escape it 'to change the future ". (Fabio Bucciarelli for the everyday occurrence, March 2014).
For his solo exhibition at the gallery De Chirico, the Turin photographer focuses on a different dimension to the conflict, encouraging the everyday, out of time. A vision of the ancestral past of the man who becomes present in a context of daily life in Africa.

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