Alice Caracciolo

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is the term used to refer to the discriminatory policy of the United States of America between 1994 and 2011, on military sexual orientation.
The work was born as a result of my finding of a notebook from 1951 belonging to an Italian corporal student; hidden among the pages is a love letter addressed to another man.
The work is a reflection on the presence and condition of homosexuality in the army, where virility has always been imposed as an impregnable principle and where, despite this, the feeling of love continues to exist, to survive, to blossom.”

Alice Caracciolo
(Pisa, IT, 1986)
Alice Caracciolo graduated in Art History at the University of Pisa and in Photography and Visual Design at NABA in Milan. In 2020 she attended the program in Visual Arts and Contemporary Culture at P.I.A. in Lecce.
Among her latest works: I Arbitrarily Fired and Hit exhibited during lecce art week and curated by Caterina Riva; Piet[r]à, exhibited at Giovane Fotografia Italiana, within the contex of Fotografia Europea, curated by Daniele De Luigi; Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles curated by Brad Feuerhelm and Natasha Christia and Organ Vida International Photography Festival curated by Marina Paulenka and Lea Vene.
In 2020 she founded and started directing linea, a contemporary art space and school of photography, in Lecce, Apulia region.