After Us

After us (2025)

The project began during an artist residency at the Archaeological Museum of the Ente Oliveriani in Pesaro (Italy) - in collaboration with Centrale Fotografia- in dialogue with the objects from the Necropolis of Novilara, items placed in burials that, centuries later, still speak of the lives they accompanied.

During the same period, the artist experienced the loss of her father. From this encounter between personal experience and archaeological research emerged a central question: what remains of us in the images, objects and spaces we once inhabited?

We live in an unstable time marked by environmental crises, wars and rapid technological change, where the future often carries a sense of uncertainty. Death has gradually disappeared from everyday life and is now mostly confined to hospitals and private spaces; rituals have become simplified and often lack the symbols that once expressed identity and belonging. While ancient objects preserved traces of those who lived before us, our own culture seems to leave far fewer lasting signs.
And yet everyday life continues to hold echoes of those who are gone: rooms that still carry their presence, gestures that remain in memory, photographs that keep fragments of a life. At the same time, what survives often appears reduced, fragmentary, insufficient — unable to match the complexity of what has been lived.

Through staged photographs, family archival materials, video and sound installations, After Us brings together autobiography and archaeology, personal loss and collective history.

The project constructs a space where presence and absence coexist, and where the experience of loss is also shaped through subtraction, reduction and silence.

Rather than offering answers, After Us opens a question: are we still leaving traces that will be able to speak about us in the future?