YVONNE De ROSA
A Mia Madre
Curated by Simone Azzoni

With this work, I aim to share an analysis and raise questions about war, particularly the fact that it is primarily fought by young men and women who often have little awareness of what they are about to endure. Through my art, I seek an emotional connection with the viewer without providing a direct representation of reality. By subverting the timeline and eliminating the brutality of the present, I create a suspended time and invite reflection on this theme.

Yvonne De Rosa

The images which Yvonne De Rosa has collected are interconnected, objective and the vernacular photographs are like punctuation to paragraphs that recount yet another story.

A MIA MADRE is an archive in which Yvonne De Rosa both reaffirms the values of truth and remembrance and insinuates a fictional narrative. The archive is the result of sampling and reconstruction; it is a mosaic that does not recount a linear story but rather confounds text and material.

A MIA MADRE does not preserve a cohesive and compact story, but slivers and fragments of one with a high metonymic potential.

If a fragment is the smallest possible unit, its assembly with others is the practice through which its artistry is fulfilled. With her work, Yvonne De Rosa builds an atlas whose criteria for chronology are deliberately weak, yet which possess a powerful iconography. It is a meta-collection of what it might have meant to be a young soldier.

Simone Azzoni

This exhibition comes from our partner festival, Grenze Arsenali Fotografici.

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Mon – Thu 10 – 17h
Fri 10 – 15h