In Vetta
Giorgia Piffaretti, Sophie Wright

Since 2019, artists Giorgia Piffaretti and Sophie Wright have been working together by collecting fragments – pictures, notes, personal archive material – and experimenting with the multiple possibilities, experiences and narrative configurations that can emerge from these starting points. Their research takes on many different shapes, from lecture performances to multimedia installations, to speculate on the volatile lives of a single image.

Starting with the discovery of a family photo taken on the summit of Mont Blanc, the work In Vetta triggers an avalanche of fragments and associations from our collective imagination. What does the top of the mountain represent? In this ongoing project, Europe’s highest mountain becomes a metaphor for our contemporary obsession with capturing time. Approaching the glacier as a “natural archive”, In Vetta poses questions relating to the past, nostalgia, loss and preservation that allow us to re-examine the relationship between man, image and nature from different angles.

A project porposed by Espace libre.

Year of production: 2019-

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