"Take Me With You" & "Now I Am Yours" installation view at Fondazione Umanitaria, June 2025
What Becomes of the Archive?
With this two works I tried to answer this question. Traditionally, an archive is a collection- a narrative assembled through documents, photographs, and written notes. Yet, what intrigues me most is not the archive itself, but the subtle transformation that occurs within the individual who encounters it. Once experienced, the information within an archive is absorbed, interpreted, and ultimately transformed by each viewer. When a visitor leaves the space where the archive is exhibited, its contents are no longer static; they become part of the individual, carried away and reimagined, regardless of the effect. My works, Take me with you and Now I am yours, are conceived as complementary explorations of this translation; the archive is internalised and reinvented by those who encounter it.
"Take Me With You"
is a handmade box (dimensions: 12x18x20cm) containing stickers created with images from Fondazione Umanitaria's archive. The stickers are freely available for the audience to collect and use. This work invites direct engagement, encouraging visitors to take fragments of the archive with them and integrate them into their own lives and contexts.
"Now I am Yours"
Positioned side by side to the box is a poster (dimensions:400x150cm) featuring the phrase "Now I am yours" on its left side. A week before the exhibition, I filled this poster with various materials related to the site and its history, creating a densely layered visual record that was then left to be discovered.