She found out from reading the newspaper that everything had been liquidated. The hotel, the house and the land. The next year she died of a broken heart. Disowned by his family because of his bankruptcy, he was forced to sell.
She found out from reading the newspaper that everything had been liquidated. The hotel, the house and the land. The next year she died of a broken heart. Disowned by his family because of his bankruptcy, he was forced to sell. After the death of his wife, he had to leave his eight children and seek his fortune elsewhere.
Six fine art prints on cotton paper, 30 x 37.5 cm each
This series presents portraits of a couple, the artist’s great-grandparents, husband and wife photographed individually, separated and imprisoned in their period frames, displayed in a sequence that emphasizes the difficulty of their gazes to meet, the impossibility of fully sharing emotions, fears, desires and aspirations with each other. *
* Texts by Francesca Bernasconi taken from the presentation of the exhibition at Casa Pessina.
Six fine art prints on cotton paper, 30 x 37.5 cm each
This series presents portraits of a couple, the artist’s great-grandparents, husband and wife photographed individually, separated and imprisoned in their period frames, displayed in a sequence that emphasizes the difficulty of their gazes to meet, the impossibility of fully sharing emotions, fears, desires and aspirations with each other. *
* Texts by Francesca Bernasconi taken from the presentation of the exhibition at Casa Pessina.