Telecchio, 2025

The series originates from a visual investigation into the definition of the loss of a place, explored through the case of Telecchio. By merging past and present, digital and analog, it reflects on disappearance and on the image as a tool of remembrance.

The series, composed of 12 digital shots, takes the form of a visual investigation into the past and present of Telecchio, a mountain hamlet located in the municipality of Coli, in the province of Piacenza. The settlement, now completely abandoned, has always been without vehicular access and can only be reached on foot, thus embodying a condition suspended between physical isolation and resistance to modernity. This limitation disrupts the conventional experience of space according to contemporary logics of immediate accessibility to every need and service.

The work develops as a sort of device for reactivating the collective memory embedded in the territory, establishing a dialogue between temporal stratifications—past and present—and formal ones—digital and analog. This dual interpretative level is also reflected in the technical process: images deliberately produced with a commonly used digital device, the mobile phone, which capture fragments of rural and village everyday life, are then transferred through ancient and analog printing processes. These processes are sometimes carried out on glass, which is then placed in front of the camera, thus creating a double dimension; at other times, usually on paper, the mobile device is used to photograph fragments of the prints directly. This methodological choice aims to trigger a reflection on the materiality of the image and its role in the construction of memory.

The project also presents itself as a form of anthropological and cultural research on Telecchio itself; an attempt to symbolically repopulate a place that is likely, in a not-too-distant future, to survive only within the immaterial dimension of memory.