NOTES FOR A SILENT MAN / EMANUELE CAMERINI

Questo è un viaggio iniziatico. È il racconto dell’accettazione progressiva di un’altra parte di se stessi, dell’uguale in mutazione; in una parola, del nuovo, in una delle sue molteplici forme. Si decide di affrontare le emozioni attraverso le immagini di famiglia e le fotografie scattate durante un viaggio, intrapreso proprio alla riscoperta della memoria e dei ricordi legati alla figura paterna.

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This is a voyage of initiation. It’s a story of the gradual acceptance of another part of the self, of the twin in mutation; in one word, it is about the new, in its manifold meanings. The images were created on a singularly-focused journey that was undertaken to rediscover memories connected to the artist’s father. Through family photographs and his own dreamlike images, Camerini accesses his emotions and at the same time behaves like an archaeologist – the splinters of his own existence are buried in the deepest layers of his memory, and in order to reconstruct these memories, he travels again through the places of his childhood..."