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The words left unsaid

Lorenzo Artico

The artwork voices a silent distress, an inner turmoil made up of seemingly endless waiting, fear and emptiness. The words emerge like fragments of a broken dialogue, fragmented thoughts that chase themselves without resolution, until they condense into an absolute need: ‘I want Love, Now.’
This subdued but still unstoppable shout represents the situation of those who are not represented by conventional narratives of love and identity, those who exist in liminal spaces, between longing and invisibility. We live in a world that often dictates rigid definitions on what love and being loved means, on who has the right to fully exist and who is relegated to the margins.
The artwork challenges these impositions, converting the need for love into an act of resistance: not a timid request but a powerful demand. Not still waiting, but declaring. Here, love is not some distant ideal, but a concrete need, a right that has to be loudly claimed.