Tua Sorella

Veronica Barbato

Publisher
Artphilein Editions
Year
2024
ISBN
9791280830289
Specifications
Softcover
19 x 24 cm
128 pages
Edition of 300 copies
Text by Maria and Veronica Barbato
Design: Vittoria Fragapane, Veronica Barbato, Simone Pollastri

1980s: reflux, armed struggle and heroin. Telling an increasingly popular topic, one of social unease, rebellion, drugs and freedom. This is my sister’s story. At the age of twenty-three, she committed suicide after a period of drug addiction. I am giving her a second life, using the language and dimension of street art, letting her travel the world, as she had no way of doing. I launched a communication campaign through billboards to make her an icon. Deploying the fundamental role of art in defining perception. A photographic exhibition in constant motion, ‘on the road’. In the photographs, I insert vivid colours to represent hallucinations, phrases from her secret diaries, with glitter referencing the false illusion of drugs. The colours, a celebreation of her life. This project started out from a letter received five years after her death. It was undoubtedly her - the same words, the same way of expressing herself through another person, acting as an intermediary. This letter saved me. The project is the result of social redemption, making Mary the protagonist of a new life. I wanted to make a dream possible, giving her the magic she never believed she possessed but that I saw. I broke the rules with courage, including love and pride for my sister, and with the same pride I told her story, giving her dignity.

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