Imprinted traces

video installation 5’04”, LED screen, wood, handles, paper, 96x119x72cm, 2024

My artistic research analyses the role of women, with particular attention to gender equality.

My work intends to investigate, through a reconstruction of family stories, generations, time, the female traces of culinary tradition.

In an intimate atmosphere, the testimonies follow one another in the video installation which is formed by a screen contained inside an old drawer that aims to represent the flow of time, evoking the process of recovering memories, never completely lost.

Each page has its own story, personal signs, a stain, a cancellation, a tear, differences in the graphic style.

Each element is chosen to evoke sensations, images, nostalgic memories. Passing down family recipes, cooking together, the grandmother, the mother, the daughter.

In the audio track, the poetics develops on various fronts; the first is maternal love, tradition and passion.

In the audio track: "Every wife, even if not Neapolitan, but who has a Neapolitan husband, must, absolutely must, if she wants to be a perfect wife, often present him with a hot pizza at snack time". It is an excerpt from Petronilla's 1941 book

This role of perfect spouse has always been entrusted to the woman, creator of the desire to nourish care.

In this historical moment, with the transformations that have followed one another over the last few decades, a radical reversal is desirable that sees the male figure as the protagonist of this practice, who in the guise of the "Perfect Man", can contribute to passing on the concept of Care and attention for others as a daily exercise, where respect for the female gender can also be achieved by giving one's own contribution to this aspect that is anything but secondary.