Valeria Laureano

APICE | The photographic research reconstructs, through a mixture of archival portraits and current places, the story of the old town of Apice, partially evicted due to the earthquake in Irpinia in 1962 and then completely destroyed and abandoned after the second earthquake, in 1980.

Today what remains of Apice is the journey in images that the artist proposes, giving new life to spaces, once occupied by daily gestures and now full of memories. The work was elaborated from an archive of images found on site, consisting of a large number of negatives and glass sheets found on the back of a coffin shop, buried from the damp ground.

The photo archive offers a faithful portrait of the inhabitants of the village and alongside the current images of places and landscapes, gives identity to the village again.

The protagonists of Apice and their stories are imagined by the author in a very personal way. This means that the viewer can ideally and freely interpret them in a subjective way. So, the identity of Apice takes shape from the memory of its inhabitants.

A story in which time is no longer synonymous with destruction and abandonment but with creation and rebirth. Check out the Apice video | www.valerialaureano.com