Obsessed with the search for the roots of birth and therefore the natural suffering that is part of each one of us, I look for familiar objects, letters, diaries. I want to understand the meaning, find an imposed order, exorcise pain. I am born of love between two people and it is the same place from which my sense of abandonment forms, which perpetuates in my family tree from generation to generation. I feel the need to know where all this comes from: Why after my grandfather’s death, my mother was left in Valtellina at the grandparents’ house? Why did my paternal grandfather leave home without leaving any trace of him when my father was only 8 years old? Why did my mother decide to leave when I was only 8 years old? Why do we create and destroy at the same time? Understanding this is to put things in order, even for fun, to forgive and forgive myself. The book wants to be a disjoint memory that jumps from one place to another, I want the names of subjects and places in the photos to disappear. The core is the behaviors, gestures and patterns that pass from one generation to another, as well as natural events that occur in life, birth or death.
The book is intended to be a hymn to life.
Photographs Texts 166pp 28.7×21.8cm. Leporello Cover on Sirio Black
Publisher: Artphilein Editions SA, Lugano (CH)
Design: Hannah Feldmeier
Texts by: Ai Weiwei, Viraj Parikh, Miriam Zlobinski
Printing: Grafiche Milani, Milan (IT)
First edition: August 2022