‘Thank you for the invitation and for the opportunity to be here and meet the group of OMNE-lab residents. – F.E.R.V.E.T. archive (Castelfranco, Italy) As part of the OMNE project, I will work on a project about the photographic archive of F.E.R.V.E.T., nowadays filed in Castelfranco’s public library. (Image 1, 2)) (F.E.R.V.E.T. stands for ‘Fabbricazione […]

In the labyrinth of identity Ramya by Petra Stavast is a delicate and profound work that enters you step by step. It’s not like love at first sight, it requires dedication: just like Stavast had in following and trying to rebuild, for a period of thirteen years, the plots of life of a woman thirty years older than herself. […]

Nel labirinto dell’identità Ramya di Petra Stavast è un lavoro, delicato ma al tempo stesso profondo, che ti entra dentro un poco alla volta. Non si fa amare a prima vista, ma richiede dedizione: la stessa che la Stavast ha avuto nel seguire e tentare di ricostruire, per un periodo lungo tredici anni, le trame della […]

SAUL  In Ramya, as in your other projects, photography is a tool of reconstruction, return and invention of memory. Tell me about it. PETRA  Memory and the medium of photography, in my opinion, are indissolubly connected. Besides that, and partial due to that, I feel very in place in a “reconstructing role”. The first time […]