MEMORIAL

Memorial is a project that explores the intersection of memory, materiality, and meaning through the use of projected language on physical objects and emotional landscapes. Words appear like fleeting thoughts, ephemeral imprints that give voice to the silent weight of furniture and the personal histories they hold. Inspired by childhood experiences in my family’s furniture shop, the work revisits a space where aesthetic sensitivity was quietly nurtured through acts of composition and display. Arranging furnishings became a shared ritual, a search for balance and beauty, carried out under the quiet pressure to sell heavy, expensive objects. It was a place of subtle frustration, but also one of profound visual formation.

The project originated at the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Collemacchia (Molise), Italy. It marked my first time working in Italy as an artist, and the proximity to my family’s roots stirred a flood of memories. The location sparked an instinctive and intimate process, allowing the installation to emerge as a kind of spatial writing, where projected language becomes a trace of the past, briefly illuminating the surfaces that once shaped it.