The Pescatori’s Studio

2019

Dimensions variable

Multimedia Installation, Assemblage, Sculptures, Projection, Italian Roadway Maps, Spools, Shells, Sound

The Pescatori’s Studio (2019) is an installation that guides viewers through the multidimensionality of memory. The installation comprises 2D, 3D, 4D and sound elements that all serve in remembering my grandmother and our shared connection to Italy. I spent nine months of 2019 in Italy, where my grandmother’s only surviving family lives. The work is anchored by my grandmother’s maps of Italy where she would mark and note places of significance. I took these maps and inscribed my own presence by sewing objects onto the surface as markers of my own history. A video of my own photographs and my grandmother’s projects onto the maps and serves to spotlight the objects and marks. I view the maps as incapable of revealing the magnitude of these memories. Through my personal collection of materials from that time, and my grandmother’s own collection, I assemble the expansiveness of this memory.