…To define her work protocol for Forget/Fullness, the artist connects the contemporary notion of cognitive offloading and the practice of delegating memories to the cloud with the analog experience described by Italo Calvino in “Avventura di un fotografo°…To this injunction, Eva Frapiccini opposes a redistribution of visual responsibilities, attributing the relevant event to human memory and what remains out of focus to the machine. Off-center vision implies a focus on the materiality of memory. Though missing in the photographs of Forget/Fullness, the body does feature in the use of the Hasselblad camera, which requires the artist to go through an eminently physical process: the device is held at belly height, the intervals of shooting extraordinarily slow compared to the rapidity to which the smartphone has accustomed us. It is a matter of attempting the unreal operation foretold by Calvino of “giving a body to memory in order to replace it with the present before his eyes.”

[from the exhibition text by Federica Martini]

Pics by Beppe Giardino