Abstract
Paper collage using photographs taken by the author
Architecture serves as a repository for memories. Monuments embody this role, as expression of collective remembrance ("monumentum", from latin “moneo”: to remind, to recollect). However, this role isn't exclusive to grand structures: even our own houses become, in our life, “theatres of memories”. My collage is a montage of fragments of architectural artifacts that belong to the collective but at the same time are part of my own autobiographical memory. Like memories (and dreams) themselves, these fragments and their materiality are juxtaposed, overlapped, intertwined, and blurred one into the other, forming a non-linear sequence that merges different times and spaces into a poetic (from greek “poiesis”, the act of “making”) unity—a reflection of the complex act of recollection.
Architecture serves as a repository for memories. Monuments embody this role, as expression of collective remembrance ("monumentum", from latin “moneo”: to remind, to recollect). However, this role isn't exclusive to grand structures: even our own houses become, in our life, “theatres of memories”. My collage is a montage of fragments of architectural artifacts that belong to the collective but at the same time are part of my own autobiographical memory. Like memories (and dreams) themselves, these fragments and their materiality are juxtaposed, overlapped, intertwined, and blurred one into the other, forming a non-linear sequence that merges different times and spaces into a poetic (from greek “poiesis”, the act of “making”) unity—a reflection of the complex act of recollection.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Event | Dreaming architectures: Transformation, stratification and rebirth of the architecture of the past - Palazzo Carignano, Turin, Italy Duration: 10 May 2024 → 31 May 2024 |