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Flowers
1998-2000
The flowers at the edge of the road identify an otherwise nondescript
and characterless site, a border that runs between the space for
transit and the land it crosses, and that harbours residues of both.
They commemorate a sudden event, and radically transform the nature
of the site where this event has taken place. Their presence fills
the place they occupy with meaning, and incorporate it into the
symbolic universe of a limited number of people. Franco La Cecla*
suggests that the place of roadside flowers is the ‘shadow’
of the actual sepulchre. In many instances the flowers are not replaced
and we see them fading into the soil’s multiple textures. These
places ‘of shadow’, however, far from disappearing, become
invisible, or as Bachelard puts it: not only our memories are ‘housed’,
but also what we have consigned to oblivion.
*Franco La Cecla 'Sacralità del Guard-rail', in Sofia Boesch Gajano e Lucetta Scaraffia eds, Luoghi Sacri e Spazi della Santità; Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 1990.
Prints details
10 C-Type prints, 89cm x 106cm
(69x86 + 10 cm white border). Edition of 6.
Portfolio box of 10 C-Type prints, 50cm x 60cm.
Edition of 6.
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