Piccole Passioni

Forever Blur is an ongoing series that examines contemporary dispositifs of belief and memory. By slowing down the regime of photographic visibility, the project proposes a sensorial experience of the image as an object of vigilance, projection, and reminiscence. The series explores intermediary spaces - dressing rooms, backstage areas, sites of withdrawal -conceived as transitional zones imbued with intimate and collective traces. Positioned on the margins of dominant narratives, these spaces function as everyday heterotopias: devoid of bodies yet inhabited by memory. Nourished by a utopian, magical imagination rooted in the visions of a clairvoyant grandmother, they become sites of (re)claiming power - symbolic, individual, collective, and political - where the plastic work unfolds as a moving memory, shaped by reuse, ambiguity, and resonance. Through photographic transfers onto wax and textile, the project develops objects situated between image, sculpture, and costume. The images stage veils, garments, puppets, ribbons, and armor, conceived as second skin. Wax, an organic, sensitive material close to the body, slows the image down, holding it in a fragile state of appearance, between revelation and dissolution. Textile, as a supple and porous support, extends this relationship to the body: it absorbs, distorts, and inscribes the image within a domestic and ritual register. Inspired by wax ex-voto from Southern Italy, this work conceives photography as a deposit, not as proof of an event, but as the survival of a presence. In dialogue with the writings of Georges Didi-Huberman, the image is understood as an intermittent apparition, traversed by layers, folds, and erasures. Through plays of thickness, stratification, and opacity, the transfer technique intensifies the image’s ghostly, spectral dimension.