Autoritratti (Self-portraits) is a participatory art project that calls into question the unconscious and literature. In 2018, Tommaso Spazzini Villa involved over 361 inmates from various Italian prisons, entrusting each of them with a different page from a copy of Homer's Odyssey. On each sheet, each participant is invited to intervene with underlining and comments, highlighting words so as to compose meaningful sentences, representative of the inmate or his state of mind.
The Homeric text is thus transformed into a sort of stage backdrop, where the real actors on the field are the participants and the space of expression that is made available to them to trace their own "self-portrait".

This volume shows the copy of the Odyssey, recomposed by the artist, once the project was concluded; a sort of meta-text emerges, which gives voice to the unconscious and personal experiences of the participants, capable of speaking of the depths of these people, and of their condition of deprivation and limitation of freedom.