Fotograffiate (prima serie con Cancellate), dēpFlōr - T.O.E. Art Market

Fotograffiate, (the first series of an ongoing work including the set “Cancellate”), is a work in progress started in 2018 inside the context of another work, called “Corrispondenze”. The project reflects on the memory process that creates new meaning in relation to the nature and the transformation of landscape, considering also its political, social and historical issues. The work begins with an intimate approach, focusing on an individual memory that expands to a community perspective. In fact, it’s easy to find this correspondence starting with the choice of the pictures, photos taken at different periods of life, and with the kind of setting made up with table frames, in a common domestic and very familiar arrangement. In this sense the project focuses itself on the inner paradox of memory that can be seen at the same time as a limitation and as a chance, also taking into account the resulting alchemical process that often takes to a new awareness. The entire reflection matches with an artistic practice made up with scratches engraved on the photos surface: real abrasions that destroy part of the composition to rebuild it in some cases. Sometimes these scratches are needed to remove natural elements from the landscape, for the purpose of creating a warning, a suggestion, a feeling of nostalgia caused by the loss; other times the removal concerns barriers and people perceived as intruders: in this case nature on the background is reconstructed and looks like camouflaged thanks to the use of a restoration technique called Rigatino (tight lines takes the place of the original visual elements building new ones). In both the previously quoted cases, a plastic dust remains after engraving, and it is kept in sight in the frames. When talking about barriers, the project takes on a new meaning that develops in the 'Cancellate' set. It’s just in this last set that the act of scratching away gates and fences, that limited materially the places to private use, allows us to remove at the same time our personal borders to welcome the gaze and the memory of the others in a common and suspended time. The installation is made up of ten frames: one triptych, three diptych and the Cancellate set. The work is available in its entirety or in its above mentioned parts.