TRACE(S) investigates the manifold understandings of the notion of trace: element, footprint, fragment, hint, indication, particle, proof, relic, remains, remnent, shred, strain, taste, tinge, vestige […]. In the footsteps of Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida and Pierre Bourdieu - among others - TRACE(S) attempts to decipher and comprehend the semiological, iconographical, archeological and ideological remnents in the production of architecture, their lasting and ephemeral natures as well as their original determinations.
Through a series of montages (both in images and drawings), I have analyzed the Patrimonial trace: after having defined it within a specific frame of discourse, the attempt was to portray it through the choice of a place in Rome that could embrace all the significance of the topic, i.e. Piazza Navona. The interest lies in what we use as a depth of field, not meant in a photographic way - but in this sense of the idea of transcending time or obscuring time, and that something is retained, even where there is a loss of origin.
An academic project developed with F. Charbonnet & P. Heiz
