Retained Reports raises questions about our relationship with data originated from our own private human experiences, and invites us to imagine alternative economic and social logics.
In the present body of work I have set out to assemble a filter made of selenite – crystalline mineral gypsum – and to use it to shed new light on the vestiges and the war-torn history of the old-town of Gessopalena (Italy), whose habitations are dug into the gypsum rock itself.
In W.A.R. – War Against Reality – I question the system and limitations of embedded journalism, the arguable reportages coming from professional eyewitnesses, and their selective depiction of conflict