Flowers of death
(2015-2017)
Flowers of death is a series of diptychs that explores the space between beauty and decay.
The artist customarily rephotographed memorial portraits found in cemeteries through out Italy, successively pairing them with photos of both cut and artificial flowers, left on the graves of loved ones.
The tension between the stillness of the faces and the trembling, iridescent life that the flowers convey, is re-configured by altering textures and colours, in order to give shape to a fictional nature, vibrant and hallucinatory at the same time.
Through a bold process of manipulation and reconfiguration, the artist attempts to undermine the narrative of death, radically transforming the original portraits, to produce entirely new pieces and inject new
life into forgotten images.
