Federico Arcangeli, PLEASURE ISLAND, 2019

A trip through the Italian “fun factory”. Rimini, capital of the Romagna Riviera. Aldo Bonomi, sociologist and author of the well-known District of Pleasure (Bollati Borlinghieri, 2000) writes “at the center of the representation the key figure of the” consumer “, who interprets himself within an imaginary inspired by lifestyles, transformed in goods. The island of pleasure represents them in its registry multiplicity, rituals and trends. The images tell of a new diversification of the social composition of the supply chain of emotions and desire. »