If I close my eyes I see the mountain

Wallpaper and framed vintage photography,  135 x 203 cm, 10 x 14.5 cm

In this work, Aline d’Auria superimposes a photograph of her mother as a child, absorbed in dance, with the blow-up of a shot taken by her now-adult mother depicting a rocky peak on which a few people intent on ascending can barely be distinguished, thus sublimating through her gaze the arduous task of reconciling the dreams and hopes of childhood with the inevitable disillusions of adult life. *

* Texts by Francesca Bernasconi taken from the presentation of the exhibition at Casa Pessina.