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MEMORY

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Utrecht (2017) Until the day I started taking pictures, my perception of the past, and therefore of life, has been probably very different. If the person is nothing more than an approximated ordered accumulation of memories, those not supported by images will be significantly different from those frozen by a camera. Until 1992, when I borrowed my father's Handycam to shoot some videos with friends, I have imaginative memories of my relationships, and it is known that the essence of life is in your relationships. Those people that I have never portrayed have not vanished, but in my mind they have taken on a decidedly different aspect from reality, becoming less exact from a physiognomic point of view but more intimate, more multifaceted. Of them there is not only my visual experience diluted over the years, but also a specific sensation that is like a sort of composite impression, made of the multiple aspects of the person: the voice, the body language, the smell, but above all the