“Social morality is the prison that traps and suffocates free souls.
They are not welcomed by the community, but locked in cages whose bars are not made of iron and bolts, but their structure is composed of conjectures, prejudices and impositions.

Around the cages the man with a free soul hears only heart-rending screams and suffering and his only goal is to find a stratagem to be able to escape, looking for an escape route to continue living.

Days, months and years pass and you continue to remain locked in the darkness, but you feel that the world outside the cold bars continues to move and change appearance. Thinking about the past life is useless, going back is useless, it is only useful to look forward and desire a new life that awaits free souls. With creativity, you shape keys to open the padlock of the cage that imprisons and suffocates, but at the same time you realize that escaping is risky, but it is the only way you have to live, so the only thing you can do is accept the risk, open the padlock and regain your beloved freedom.”

The project is inspired by the life of Giacomo Casanova, who lived in Venice in the eighteenth century. We all know the story of the Casanovas and his seductive ability is now legendary, but this is not what we want to bring out in this photographic story.
The theme of the project focuses on a specific episode of his life: his stay in the Piombi prison of the Doge’s Palace, emphasizing his famous escape attempts from what was the most important maximum security facility at the time.

The illustrated story is inspired by the book written by Casanova himself, entitled “Storia della mia fuga dai piombi”.
His last days before his escape, full of desperation, after several attempts, all of which failed, and with the looming burden of his probable death sentence, are a sort of metaphor for those who, even today, feel somehow trapped in a life that does not belong to them.

The moment of his escape towards freedom represents a warning for all those who intend to take their life into their own hands, fighting prejudices, facing it and “seducing” it as if it were an attractive and desired noblewoman, using precisely the same bewitching art that only Casanova, with his charm and his confidence, knew how to do.