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AMBARABÀ

COVÌD

CICCÌ

Little Tales from a Pandemic World for Grown-Up Kids
Text by Francesco Paganini
Illustrations by Giulia Alessio
Published in December 2020

The year 2020 was a difficult one, marked by pain, loneliness, and isolation.

The Covid-19 pandemic forcefully entered our homes, shuffled the cards of our lives and those of others without warning, causing many small certainties to crumble while unexpectedly revealing new horizons.

The artistic and cultural world, often overlooked in its ability to interpret processes of change, now seeks to understand a new world and a new society, offering reflections and questions to our ambiguous daily lives.

During months of forced isolation, people from all around the world found themselves reflecting and dreaming, desperately searching for the threads of their own future and humanity to cling to tenaciously.

From these months of fears and hopes, in the sturdy fragility of a home in the Bolivian Andes, these stories are born, in the imagination of a world that, outside the front door, hides contrasts and absurdities that lead us to discover the very essence of the new humanity.

In the face of a world that is now so complex, we find ourselves as children who have grown up quickly and young, fearful dreamers with heads full of questions and fears.

And today, the big and small kids of 2020 are tasked with scrutinizing the future, to rebuild it anew and differently, perhaps better.

We hope that these little tales can be a small building block in this process, stimulating the capacity of kids, young people, teenagers, and big kids to renew themselves and, perhaps, improve a little bit.

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