For you, to remember her often

The images are the result of an archive work that aims to investigate the sense of private and collective memory.

"For you, to remember her often "

"For you, to remember her often " is a phrase I found the back of an old photo, written by a friend of Mirta, one of the people shown in these images.

The work presented here collects photos of my family history, of my grandmother, mother and aunt, along with Doris and Mirta, women born and raised between the 1920s and 1940s, who I never met but know through the family albums that have been given to me.

The images are the result of an archive work that aims to investigate the sense of private and collective memory.

While choosing the various images that make up the project, I found some common situations: portraits of childhood, trips out of town, group photos with relatives, brothers, holidays, parties.

These photos, despite being being private, become collective stories, common to many, and the gap between the different identities is attenuated.

So I decided to unify the different stories by creating new images, destructuring the photos of the past by merging them with some modern landscapes and new scenarios, playing with the meaning of memory.

Each image can, therefore, be read in different ways: it becomes a new story, which can evoke other stories, other images.