Until my last drop of Blood

“UNTIL MY LAST DROP OF BLOOD” is a multilayered series

that interrogates the construction of identity through the

observation of fragility, desires and resilience of memory.

While creating a visual dialogue based on personal and

collective histories, I interacted with my family in one

space, our Home, and analyzed how generational and

personal trauma can reshape or transfer to a single

individual and a collectivity, creating a bounce between

what is inherited and what is experienced.

I mixed archival family photographs, intimate portraits,

and newly created images, to build a dialogue between

past and present, using photography as a tool and as a

non-judgemental confessional.

A project born as a provocation after a furious fight, but

through the process it has transformed as a playful

rediscovery of the parental and human role of Giovanni

and Gabriella narrated from the point of view of a

daughter.

Thanks to a very rich family archive, I found myself

playing between past, present and futures that never

happened, reinterpreting their stories, desires and their

cultural backgrounds and started to look at them as

human beings and not just as family.

These images bring to light all the unspoken words, silent

dreams, needs that have accompanied us as a family and

single individuals from our childhoods and that

repeatedly peep into our head. Ordinary habits become

extraordinary rituals, creating a timeless and ageless

playground where roles are almost reversed.

They are not necessarily family rules, however they are

insurmountable thoughts, sometimes dogmas that mark

the life of each of us, becoming projections from

generation to generation.

This project approaches the complexities of interpersonal

relationships with a sweet and sour Irony.