Exporting Peace
This work denounces the paradox of peace enforced
through violence. Framed like a propaganda poster,
it reveals how weapons are disguised as aid, and how
children become unwilling targets in a system where
war is sold as salvation.
Io Sono Caino
CAINO was born in the late 1980s in a small town in Umbria, Italy. From an early age, drawing became his refuge—the first language through which he began to make sense of the world. Life, however, led him down a different path: after graduating with top marks from a technical institute, he pursued a career that prioritized stability over artistic expression. But the creative impulse never faded. Cinema, with its power to tell stories through images, continued to fuel his passion for visual language. In 2019, he discovered photography—a medium that allowed him to travel and narrate what often remains unseen: forgotten places, marginalized faces, submerged realities. In 2024, a life-changing event—a stroke followed by heart surgery—became a turning point. The stark awareness of time’s fragility pushed him to devote himself fully to art. Since then, CAINO has been working across photography, installation, and visual arts, with a raw yet poetic gaze focused on the excluded, the wounded, the overlooked. CAINO is a gaze, a voice, an artist who strives to restore dignity through images. Because art may not change the past, but it can cast light on the present —and, perhaps, help shape a different future.
