... once, under these arcades, the patients
worked, under the constant overseeing
of the keepers ...
... certainly it was'nt this one, the tub of
the
famous room for the hydrotherapy...
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... and probably they were not really these the doors we see in those old shots ...
... yet, these were the spaces, these the lights,
these the shades...
... Desperation
scrapes itself from the walls as the varnish, trying an impossible attempt of
escape...
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... but the atmosphere is the same:
oppressive, unable to any form
of joy...
... Every window remains closed, and
the corridors keep on bringing to any part...
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Insane
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.... doors that although open, continued to be closed...
Shadows of Madness
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Ex Regio Manicomio -
Collegno (Turin)
january 2004
Initially
the Insane Asylum was displaced in the Chartreuse of Collegno. In 1856 this
and all of its grounds were surrendered to the Regio Manicomio.
In
1854 a cholera epidemy made numerous victims. In the following decades the
number of the ills grown up, and with it the greatness and the complexity of
the structures.
Under
the long porticos, a small railway called Decauville was connecting among them
the principal pavilions.
From
the years '80 begins the de-instituionalization of the Insane Asylum, that is
unified to the hospital. The
departments were turned into community, the in-patients became guests. The
spaces of the ex Psychiatric Hospital come partly reverts to entertain
services, partly closed, partly abandoned (as the Criminal Pavilion shown in
the reportage, after having demolished its wall).
containing
also more detailed history about the Regio Manicomio.
... but no escape is possible from the lack of hope ...
... shoes that would have made only the same footsteps ...
cobblers with experienced and
fast hands, to built shoes ...