Loci

Depuis 2020

oil or acrylic paints
Variable sizes

Find a Polaroid photograph under a piece of furniture and become aware of the possible loss of a memory. It was from this realization that the Loci turned into a creative necessity. The desire to retranscribe photographs through pictorial matter became the means to sacralize and preserve a form of memory.

 

Influenced by Camille Marza's research into the Theatre of Memory, imagined at the height of the Renaissance by Giulio Camillo, this project aims to interweave a personal quest for memory with the creation of a collection of images that everyone can relate to. Drawing on the titles of the 211 illustrations that inhabit this Theatre, the paintings become a re-actualization of those ghostly images, once initiated by Titian, but which are said to have all burned in a fire.

 

Bringing together these events and knowledge, this project has produced a creative protocol over time:

 

• The subjects reproduced on the canvas must be real-life events.

• The paintings produced are named after the titles of illustrations imagined by Camillo in his theater of memory.

• The new theater will feature 211 paintings.