SCRAPS

 

Scraps originates from the artist’s family photographic archive and from the landscapes of her childhood in Maledossa. The images come from a private and domestic heritage, yet they are removed from their original function of preservation and remembrance. Through acts of erasure, stitching, and braille writing, the archive is crossed and transformed, becoming an unstable space where memory is not preserved but altered and fragmented.

 

Braille introduces a perceptual dimension that challenges the traditional relationship between photography and vision. Parts of the narrative remain present yet not immediately accessible, suggesting a memory transmitted also through what cannot be fully seen or deciphered. The loss or fragility of sight, an experience running through the family history, thus becomes a shared condition of the image itself.

 

Archival photographs coexist with landscape and newly produced images, building a non-linear narrative in which origin and dissolution, birth and disappearance, presence and absence mirror one another. The landscape of  Valle d'Aosta does not appear as a simple backdrop, but as a place of sedimentation where familial and natural traces intertwine until they become indistinguishable.

In Scraps the archive is therefore not a nostalgic place, but a fragile device of transmission. The image does not restore a complete story, but exposes the gaps and interruptions through which every memory takes shape. What emerges is not a reconstruction of the past, but the awareness that every image carries an invisible part, destined to remain incomplete.