What happens to our memory when we remember someone we have loved? This is the question that guided me throughout the project.
Memory sometimes forgets to remember to forget. Working on contrasting emotions, which are reflected on memory as two activities in conflict with each other: the removal, not always conscious, of the darkest moments and the illumination of those still imprinted, Senza memoria, senza sentimento, goes beyond the mere photographic collection, also relying on visual and conceptual art, to try to make understandable what it is, an extremely subjective and therefore dangerously foggy experience. I achieved my very first goal thanks to the search for a language capable of visually representing my memory, a language that concerns the printing technique used for the development of the shots. Drawing from my photographic archive, I relied on the Transfer technique, which consists in transferring pigments from one surface to another. A peculiar feature of the procedure is its imperfect effectiveness.
Once you have forgotten, there is no longer any way to put order.
2021 - ongoing
amateur category
Senza memoria, senza sentimento. (Series)
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AUTHOR
Federico Calogero was born in Messina in 1994. In 2020 began his studies at IED in Rome in “Visual Arts” after a few years as self-taught. Since his childhood he’s building its own narrative key on identity and the many nuances of the human condition. He spent most of his time out in the streets, portraying people and places as personal diaries, often focusing on his personal emotional research.
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