Navigators of the Landscape

Navigators of the Landscape explores memory, identity, and ancestry through family photographs. Through embroidery, stitching, and collage, I reinterpret inherited images, rebuilding connections between past, present, and belonging.

It is a work in progress that explores memory, identity, and ancestry through a personal investigation of my paternal family. Using a limited family photographic archive, I reinterpret inherited images through visual interventions such as sewing, embroidery, and collage, creating an emotional mosaic that reveals the deep connection between who I am and the legacy I carry.

Although I never met my ancestors, I feel they live within me — in my face, my personality, my body, and the name I bear. This story integrates journeys marked by the silence of Italian immigration to Brazil. Photography becomes a mediator to revisit fragmented memories, filling gaps with new meanings.

The project seeks to reconstruct a non-linear past, uniting erased and rebuilt memories in visual compositions that balance intimacy and distance.

Each piece is a dive into the traces left by this history, establishing a sensitive dialogue between past and present.

Navigators of the Landscape aims to bring to life a series of visual works that recover invisible marks, creating an emotional narrative about what was silenced and what still lives within me.