Il controllo e la perdita di libertà nelle ricerche artistiche contemporanee

Abstract

This paper focuses its attention on the recent contemporary art researches related to the concept of prison, thereby analysing both its physical dimension and its metaphorical meaning, especially as far as contemporary society is concerned. In the described works of art cells, cages and prisons symbolise a world where free forms of expression have not kept pace with the exacerbated sharing to which the internet has made us grow accustomed, thereby resulting into an ever-growing lack of privacy.