Su Carrasecare


  • Photographer
    Simone Tramonte
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2015

To experience Carnival in Sardinia is a unique and emotion-filled experience. Here we find an age-old ritual relating to the idea of death and rebirth, propitiatory dances and the Dionysus cult. What lives on today is the gestural expressiveness, the rhythm and the anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representations disguised as goats, bulls, stags and wild boars. On the island, people use the word Carrasecare (carra-de-secare), instead of Carnival. Etymologically, the word means ‘to dismember living flesh’, this is linked to the fact that, Carnival is intended as an event of death, which then leads to a rebirth following the continuous cycle of life. To observe their gestural expressiveness, their dances and animal skin costumes is like being encircled by the historical memory of these lands which each village preserves in a unique way.

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