Daniela Ardiri, AUGURI, 2019

Winner of XV Edition Marco Bastianelli Award 2019 as the best self-produced work.

Everyone of us has a photographic archive of his life and family. Photographs plays a fundamental role in our personal history, especially if we want to investigate the past. Before of digital photography, photographs were used to memorize the most important events: cerimonies, birthdays, travels get together family.
Starting analyzing of some photographs belonged to her grandmother, Daniela Ardiri has investigated subjects’ gestures and poses during the shooting.
Through the drawing she highlighted the details considered most significant and she contrasted them to the scanning of some objects found together with the photographs.
In this book, narration takes place through simple pencil lines and it is a pretext to reflect on what remains of memories. There is no more only one possible story but more interlaced keys of reading.
Auguri is the most frequently word found inside represented events and as inscription on the back of the photographs.