{"id":900,"date":"2025-06-06T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.rifugiodigitale.it\/mostra\/mohamed-hassan-our-hidden-room_eng\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:08:47","slug":"mohamed-hassan-our-hidden-room_eng","status":"publish","type":"mostra","link":"https:\/\/lab.rifugiodigitale.it\/en\/mostra\/mohamed-hassan-our-hidden-room_eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Hassan. Our Hidden Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"486\"><em>Our Hidden Room,<\/em> by Mohamed Hassan, tells the delicate story of his father, marked by mental illness, exploring themes of resilience and belonging through the powerful language of photography. Part of the exhibition cycle <em data-start=\"226\" data-end=\"246\">The Body I Live In<\/em>, which considers the body as a \u201cterritory of conflict and a borderland for identity reclamation,\u201d the show offers a deeply personal visual narrative that delves into the complex interweaving of memory, lived experience, and inner strength.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"733\"><em data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"505\">Our Hidden Room<\/em> is a love letter to a fragile father \u2013 yet one capable of teaching his son the true meaning of resilience \u2013 and to photography, the language that Mohamed Hassan (Alexandria, 1984) chose to hold together the pieces of his own story.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"1627\">As the fourth solo exhibition in the <em data-start=\"772\" data-end=\"792\">The Body I Live In <\/em>series, <em data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"818\">Our Hidden Room<\/em>, curated by Irene Alison and Paolo Cagnacci, reconstructs the life of the photographer\u2019s father, born in 1950s Egypt and forced to grapple with mental illness throughout his life.<br data-start=\"998\" data-end=\"1001\" \/>Amid a life scarred first by abuse and then by bipolar disorder\u2014leading to multiple hospitalizations and a suicide attempt \u2013 the man finds solace, refuge, and passion in photography. This passion, which at times verged on obsession, offered him both a vehicle for self-expression and a sliver of light in his darkest hours. That same passion now fuels the work of his son, who has devoted his life to photography and who has dedicated this project to his father, who passed away in 2010. The project \u2013 winner of the <em data-start=\"1513\" data-end=\"1541\">Star Photobook Dummy Award<\/em> 2024 and now published in book form by RM\u2014is intimate, delicate, and heart-wrenching.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1629\" data-end=\"1803\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">A journey through memory, identity, and the shadowy corners of hidden rooms \u2013 of both the mind and the darkroom \u2013 where the father\u2019s ghosts and the son\u2019s dreams have taken shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1208,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"ciclo":[43,44],"class_list":["post-900","mostra","type-mostra","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ciclo-photography","ciclo-the-body-i-live-in"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rifugiodigitale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mostra\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rifugiodigitale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mostra"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rifugiodigitale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mostra"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rifugiodigitale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.rifugiodigitale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ciclo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.rifugiodigitale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciclo?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}