Scappato di casa

“Scappato di casa” brings together five years of photographs exploring memory, place and attachment. An intimate constellation where the house, the garden and the landscape become fragments of a personal atlas.

“Scappato di casa” brings together five years of photographs devoted to the places that shape a life and the emotional bonds that settle within them. The family home, the garden, the chalet and the landscapes encountered along the way become fragments of an intimate atlas where memory, attachment, melancholy and disappearance converge.

The exhibition presents images created through a range of techniques, from instant photography and medium format film to digital photography. Their coexistence forms a constellation guided by associations, reminiscences and silent echoes between images.

Conceived for Casa Pessina and curated by Francesca Bernasconi, the exhibition enters into dialogue with the domestic history of the space. Each photograph acts as a fragment of a mental house inhabited by the people, objects, landscapes and absences that accompany the artist. “Scappato di casa” thus takes the form of a personal Mnemosyne Atlas, a space where images travel, respond to one another and construct their own memory.

A publication extends the exhibition into another space. Designed by Vera Bianda, it brings together photographs by Jean Marie Reynier, a poetic text by Jacques Cormary and an essay by Francesca Bernasconi. The book accompanies the images like a parallel architecture built from narratives, rhythms and fragments of memory. Published on the occasion of the exhibition, it is available at the Museo d’arte Mendrisio.