I am a collector.
Ever since I can remember, I have been collecting everything, particularly my own things as a sort of memorial.
Saving every single object is for me the first step of a possible collection: notebooks, cans, stuffed animals, receipts, batteries, or parts of myself like teeth, hair, and nails, just to mention some of them.
To keep and catalog objects has always given me pleasure. It started with me collecting memories and things that I was emotionally attached to, and it developed into an obsession to pile up ordinary objects in series.
The only complication I have is the space. Collecting requires a lot of physical and mental space, which led me to find ways to let things go.
I have realized that, to be able to throw anything away, I first need to celebrate the detachment by taking pictures of it. The composition is the result of the entire process, the image is the purpose to achieve. By then, I convince myself that what I have collected will somehow survive, especially using films as they don't leave me empty-handed.
The project Therapy is photography used as a remedy to an addiction.
Image n.1
Post-it
One year notes
July 2018 / July 2019
New York
120mm film B/W
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Diaries (b)
2001 / 2015
Rome
35mm film B/W
Image n.3
Instant FP_100C (Waste)
2019
New York
35mm film B/W
Image n.4
Hair (a)
Getting grey. Collection of hair from different cuts
2013 - 2017
Rome / Cairo / New York
35mm film B/W
Image n.5
White boxes. Closed (a)
Miscellaneous things divided in 36 boxes.
2016 / 2020
New York
35mm film B/W
Image n.6
Box n. 22 (b) Chocolate wrapping
2020
New York
Digital files
Image n.7
Kinder (a)
Jun 20th / Dec 20th 2017
New York
120mm film B/W
Image n.8
Letters from my mother
2016 / 2019
New York
120mm film B/W
Selected articles I will never read
2016 / 2019
Rome, New York
120mm film B/W
Letters from the bank
April 2017 / April 2018
New York
120mm film B/W
Photo booth
March 2016 / July 2019
New York
120mm film B/W
Image n.9
Fragile
Collection of my x-ray and MRI
1989 - 2016
Rome / Cairo
Digital files
Image n.10
My first white pubic hair
May 15th 2019
New York
Scan
Image n.11
Identity
I.D. photos
Friends (a-d)
Preschool / Primary / Secondary /High School / University
1991 / 2009
Rome
Digital files
Image n.12
Deciduous teeth (a)
198X – 199X
Rome
Digital file
Image n.13
Empty packs of cigarettes (b)
2012 – 2016
Rome
Digital file
Image n.14
Organic (b)
Collection my body parts and body fluids
2009 / 2017
Rome
35mm Film B/W
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Psychologist
Receipts from my psychologist
November 7th 2014 / February 4th 2016
Rome
35mm film B/W
