For you, to remember her often

  • Dates
    2018 - 2018
  • Author
  • Topics Portrait, Landscape, Archive, Contemporary Issues
  • Location Italy

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.

© Claudia Corrent - Image from the For you, to remember her often photography project
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Mirta's mother. The idea was to combine images of the past with images of the present, in order to speak two different times periods.Magris, an Italian writer says: "In a famous parabola Borges talks about a painter who paints landscapes; kingdoms, mountains, islands, people. At the end of his life he realized he had only been painting his face in those images; he discovers that the representation of reality is his self-portrait. "Every face is a map, every face is a story.

© Claudia Corrent - Image from the For you, to remember her often photography project
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Doris. I don't know anything about her but I found a few photos from her life in a second-hand stand, which stop when she's a young girl. So I could imagine her life and here I think of her as a young explorer who is staring far away.

© Claudia Corrent - Image from the For you, to remember her often photography project
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Below is my maternal grandmother, Olga. On the right, Mirta's mother. They are women who have never met but who have entered the same image. The rest is recent landscape.

© Claudia Corrent - Image from the For you, to remember her often photography project
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My mother, my father, my aunt, my sister and my cousins. My family's history is linked to lack and mourning. When I was just two years old, my aunt and cousin died in a car accident. This greatly changed every member of my family and led to several consequences. Everyone reacted as they could. It was a storm that left its mark. I remember as a child I tried to put together the pieces, put together the family photos, trying to give them an order to the pain experienced by others (my mother, my grandmother) because I was too small.

© Claudia Corrent - Image from the For you, to remember her often photography project
© Claudia Corrent - Image from the For you, to remember her often photography project
© Claudia Corrent - Image from the For you, to remember her often photography project
© Claudia Corrent - Image from the For you, to remember her often photography project
© Claudia Corrent - Image from the For you, to remember her often photography project
© Claudia Corrent - Image from the For you, to remember her often photography project
© Claudia Corrent - Image from the For you, to remember her often photography project

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