MAGMA MAGAZINE 04, October 2023.
This issue of Magma Magazine is dedicated to the theme of ‘Alienation’; this time Vincent Moro and Aurora Giampaoli, have decided to explore the chosen theme separately, without involving external contributors, seeking to individually, intimately, and personally delve into the essence of the alienating condition, producing a special double issue, composed of Magma Magazine n.4 and n.5.
Aurora Giampaoli is the author of all the contents of this issue 4, whose composition is inspired by a personal reluctance to place oneself in the current cultural, political, and media context that fuels a growing sense of disorientation and a desire to escape from a divisive and polarizing system. The condition of estrangement is translated, in these pages, into a search for deep connections and a desire to escape to alternative spaces, in a cosmic journey to preserve one’s integrity.
“Alienation, as a pervasive sense of detachment, is the focus of this issue, whose composition is deliberately inspired by my reluctance to position myself within the current cultural, political, and media landscape. This refusal, while on one hand may represent a transitory phase of personal maturation, on the other fuels a growing sense of disorientation and the need to escape from a system that seems more interested in polarizing than connecting.
The condition of estrangement translates, in these pages, into a quest for deep connections beyond the superficial interactions of everyday life and an unrestrained desire to escape towards alternative, both physical and metaphysical, spaces. A cosmic journey that unfolds as an immersive exploration of the inner landscape, where escape is not merely an act of distrust but rather an attempt to preserve one’s integrity”.
– Aurora Giampaoli
Together with the succeeding issue of the magazine, Magma Quattro composes a beefy two-part publication, where authors Vincent Moro and Aurora Giampaoli explore the condition of ‘Alienation’ from two different yet somehow similar perspectives.
