On Saturday, May 11, at 6:30 p.m., the exhibition “Photographic Memory, History of a Collective Recovery” will open in Livorno’s Biblioteca Labronica Bottini dell’Olio.
The exhibition, with free admission, will remain open until June 30, 2019.
On the opening day, at the same venue, starting at 9:15 a.m., a workshop “Contributions to the definition of a methodology for the recovery of photographic material” is scheduled, organized by Coop Itinera in collaboration with Cnr-Ifac (Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” of the CNR).
Among the meetings, the seminar “Photographic Memory, History of a Collective Recovery” is scheduled at 3 p.m. “The seminar stems from the recovery of the Dainelli archive, a photographer from Livorno who lives and works between China and Japan,” says Carlo Laviosa Foundation artistic director Serafino Fasulo. The archive, stored in the photographer’s Livorno home, was flooded on the tragic September 10, 2017.
The mud that ‘coats’ the negatives and prints echoes a private and collective tragedy and underscores how photography, even when it portrays familiar contexts, has a broader scope “.
For this initiative, the Carlo Laviosa Foundation created the video “Photographic Memory – Recovery of the Daniele Dainelli Archive.”
“Making this short document on the recovery of the Dainelli photographic archive,” explains Carlo Laviosa Foundation artistic director Serafino Fasulo. allowed us to emphasize themes dear to our work: highly specialized work, creative work, volunteer work, photography as a form of individual expression that turns into public fruition, ‘collective afflatus’.
It was natural to find links between the heritage of a photographer and that of a city, closely connected by mud.
The marks that the tragedy left behind become narrative, iconic and temporal evidence of the event that swept through Livorno on September 10, 2017.
The mud wiped expertly from the film leaves traces that translate into unpublished, unique images and enhances the photographic act, specifically Dainelli’s makes photographs, in its indical nature, an imprint of an event that sought the support of cellulose to imprint itself in memory, to become a relic “.
Link to video: https://youtu.be/VcACmBRElVs Carlo Laviosa Foundation Press Office Manager Daniela Salvestroni daniela.salvestroni@laviosa.com
