La 24 Ore: Court of Memory

2013 - Ongoing

La 24 Ore: Court of Memory

2013 - Ongoing

  • 2015, New York City
  • 2014, mixed media, 10 x 28 x 43 cm., 4 x 11 x 17 in.
  • 2014, mixed media, 10 x 28 x 43 cm., 4 x 11 x 17 in.
  • 2015, photogravures on Somerset white paper, 38 x 25 cm., 15 x 10 in.
  • 2015, IFA Institute of Fine Arts NYU, New York
  • 2015, Institute of Fine Arts NYU, New York
  • 2015, photogravure on Somerset white paper, 25 x 38 cm., 15 x 10 inches
  • 2015, photogravures on Somerset white paper, 25 x 38 cm., 15 x 10 in.
  • 2015, photogravure on Somerset white paper, 25 x 38 cm., 15 x 10 in.
  • 2014, mixed media, 10 x 28 x 43 cm., 4 x 11 x 17 in.
  • 2015, IFA Institute of Fine Arts NYU, New York
  • 2015, MeWe, mixed media, 10 x 28 x 43 cm., 4 x 11 x 17 in.
  • 2015, Me/We, embroidery on Belgian linen, 30 x 17 x 2 cm., 12 x 8 in.
  • 2015, Me/We, embroidery on Belgian linen, pen and pencils on Fabriano paper, 30 x 20 cm., 12 x 8 in.
  • 2017, Chi, mixed media, 10 x 28 x 43 cm., 4 x 11 x 17 in.
  • 2017, artist book, digital print on paper, 2.5, x 25 x 30 cm., 1 x 10 x 16 in.
  • 2018, Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan, Italy
  • 2017, Italian Embassy, Washington D.C.
  • 2019, Homage to Emily Dickinson, mixed media, 10 x 28 x 43 cm., 4 x 11 x 17 in.
  • 2019, Homage to Emily Dickinson, mixed media, 10 x 28 x 43 cm., 4 x 11 x 17 in.
  • 2020, Twenty-Twenty, mixed media, 10 x 28 x 43 cm., 4 x 11 x 17 in.
  • 2020, Twenty-Twenty, mixed media, 10 x 28 x 43 cm., 4 x 11 x 17 in.

La 24 Ore (literally "24 Hours") is a leather briefcase designed to hold only a day’s essentials. It embodies the process of memory itself, its limitations and demands for selection and compression: a house must  become a  small, portable case; years passed within its walls must become only moments of inward reflection, representing stages in a journey of remembrance, preservation of memory, grief, and ultimately, personal transformation.


"The 24 Ore embody those aspects of memory that must be creative, life-giving, eternal. Each case is carefully and richly constructed, the images within are multiplied, and varied, each iteration a different hue and shade from the last — evoking the way that a memory repeatedly recalled is still a new creation every time, uniquely colored by the circumstances and emotions of the moment of its recollection. This aspect of the inescapable present, as well as the inescapable self within whom these memories are ultimately made, is echoed in each briefcase by the circular mirror to be found in the lid when it is opened, confronting the viewers with an image of themselves, overlaid with the yet more ephemeral reflected images of the memories within" [...] Lisa A. Banner

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