Still from video print on canvas 90 X 160 X 3 cm 1 video - Series 1/3 + 2AP Dimensions according to the space Courtesy of Museo della Follia and Fondazione Sgarbi

Self portraits of my insanity is a confession, the artist offers us his self-portraits of folly, there are many, then he communicates in a total way of being unusual. It's very ingenious work about personal identity, whose origin title is Self-portraits. The identity of a person is something both necessary and constraining: Attolini suggests us that it is like a label, which can express the depth and the potentiality of the subject, but at same time limit them. He is in first person involved in this productive contradiction: his glance on the portrayed person merges the artist’s own interiority with the one of the represented subject, and the result is a kaleidoscopic game of different self-identities, a mirrors’ labyrinth. In Selfportraits, the main character is the people’s face, in all its simplicity and richness of significance. The intervention of the artist, his gesture of showing people’s faces, are not something neutral: the temporal alterations of the portraits – like the slowmotion effects – symbolize the participation of the «other» in the constitution of the identity of the «self». There is no individual self without a relation with other selves, this is what Self-portraits means, with its exploration of the borders of our identities: borders which are means of connection with all the people we happen to encounter in our lives.i