PLEASURE ISLAND

A pilgrimage through Italy's "fun factory."(Divertimenticio) Rimini, capital of the Romagna Riviera, a mecca for Italian holidays, later transformed into a prime destination for partygoers, transgressors, erotic atmospheres, and 1990s disco fanatics.

Aldo Bonomi, sociologist and author of the well-known essay "District of Pleasure" (Distretto del piacere, Bollati Borlinghieri, 2000), writes, "At the center of the representation is the key figure of the 'consumer,' who interprets himself within an imaginary world inspired by lifestyles of desire, transformed into commodities.

The island of pleasure represents them in their multiplicity of demographics, rituals, and trends. The images tell of a new diversification of the social composition of the chain of emotions and desire."