Traumadiary - Geneaology of pain

Traumadiary Geneaology of pain This is the diary of a pain and its journey among the members of a family. A journey that draws over time a confusing geography, to be searched in house drawers and empty rooms, in the silences of a father and the cries of a mother, in the lunches and dinners, in the nights of brothers and sisters. Traumadiary was born from the desire to bring back the memory of a family, bringing back to life family albums and images from the past, to reconstruct new visions and narratives of our present history. Trauma lives in extremely hidden territories, sometimes years are not enough to recognise its features, appearance, faces. Once again, photography has been a living instrument of knowledge, self-care and re- appropriation. This project is strongly linked to my psychotherapeutic journey, in some ways it started years ago with the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, itself extremely connected to trauma, and has developed over the years to the present day. The threads that run through families are very thin and countless, which is why multiple images coexist in my photographs: from images of my childhood, to older images belonging to family archives.