These archives serve as concrete evidence of how it is possible to forget, even through memory. The photographs in this collection are preserved in albums and accompanied by captions from that era. Far from being objective descriptions, these are instead projections of a colonial, Western mindset, steeped in supremacism and racialization. They do not help us understand; rather, they expose us.

INVENTARIO DI UNA MEMORIA DIMENTICATA addresses the need to confront these archives. A selection of captions from three albums, dated 1895, 1910, and 1937, is bound in a specially made volume. The images are not shown, to avoid reiterating violence. Instead, the viewer is invited to imagine it, focusing on the language and the mindset that expresses it. The only visual exception in the project is the image of a "tear," an enlargement of a page from the 1895 album that serves as a trace of an absence. The installation consists of an audio loop in which the author describes each image in the first person, observing its constituent elements in an attempt to reconstruct the truth of the scenes, in contrast to the colonial description. The only exception, also on the auditory level, is the torn image, with which the voice engages in search of a deeper connection. During the exhibition "Positioning Practices", pamphlet versions of the volume were displayed, made available to those in the audience who wished to return and reflect independently on the proposed contents.

The project has been included in the publication Pratiche di posizionamento | Indagini sull’esperienza coloniale italiana tra memoria e presente, published by Corraini Edizioni.