FestivalFilosofia
18|09-3|10|2015
Preview (with invitation)
09|09 6.30 PM
09|09 6.30 PM
On the occasion of festival filosofia 2015, centered on the topic of inheritance, Metronom
presents the show Framed Memories by
Martina della Valle.
Framed Memories a is a
project that started in 2009 thanks to the photos of an old family album
found by the artist in a market in Berlin. These pictures, often with notes and
captions, made it possible for Martina della Valle to create a completely new
series, in which the images are almost entirely covered in a black passe-partout
with the exception of a small detail. The observer becomes, then, the one who,
starting from the clues of these details, imagines and recreates the context,
the protagonists and the time of the photos.
“My research is a reflection upon the notion of trace,
understood as an imprint left physically or mentally by time and by human
action in lived spaces, or on the surface of objects of use,” this is how
Martina della Valle describes her creative process. the photographic medium is,
in her opinion, a fundamental instrument to inspect the past; it has the
important role to preserve the value of the images through time. The series Framed Memories is also strongly
connected with the different contexts in which it developed. From its start, it
progressively enlarged thanks to the materials that were found in cities such
as Berlin, Onomichi (Japan), Florence, Bangkok, Paris. In this way, it creates
a repertoire of images that is also a research on the relationship of different
cultures with the past.
FUORIMAPPA
by metronom
via Carteria 8, Modena
18-19|09: 11-23, 20|09: 11-21
22|09-03|10: 15-19 (Tue-Sat and by appointment)
www.festivalfilosofia.it
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