works Presqu'île and Zero Mètre – and in Stromboli – with Cartografia performativa del Mediterraneo (Performative Cartography of the Mediterranean). I consider travel as seen in the connection between body, vision and movement in space. My work conveys walking as a practice of aesthetic, mental and visual research (cf. Careri, Ingold, Twemlow, Cardoso...). Thoughts create other thoughts; stories build worlds and worlds build new stories (Haraway). We write and rewrite them continuously in the landscape that hosts them like a palimpsest. This term originally referred to an ancient manuscript, on papyrus or parchment, in which the original text was erased by washing and scraping and replaced by another, usually arranged in the spaces between the lines of the first or transversally to it. We can see islands and liminal places between land and water as physical and mental palimpsests in which our paths, feelings and traces are engraved, partially erased, tangled and intertwined. Looking, walking, thinking and acting in the landscape allows us to create a system of continuous self-generation. I am therefore interested in working on the individual and collective memory of places. My work is divided into two phases: through interviews, I collect information and stories about the place from some of its inhabitants through interviews.
Using this material, I begin to document and explore the places. Then I record my journeys digitally using Strava or Google. From the files generated, I create, with the help of the FabLab at the Polytechnic University of Bari, three-dimensional elements that are printed in clay. These objects are the three-dimensional translation of a path created by thoughts, movements and space, rewriting the landscape.
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