Sharp Memories series
Variable dimensions / Collage (c-print and paper)
In Sharp Memories the artist tears directly into the photographic paper. Straight photographic shots soften and become analogical as the artist reveals the physical quality of the media itself. The illusion of surface disrupted is symbolic for the relationship between human actions and the natural world (we seem intent to destroy). In Constanza Piaggio’s Sharp Memories “the photographic image, natural elements, and fragments of artworks are combined and repeated thus pointing out the relationship between human actions, history and nature.” The sub-straight of our visual plane being shifted or “damaged” before our eyes becomes metaphor whereby Piaggio’s marks recognize and prove human activity as the first cause of the transformation of the Earth in our Anthropocene era.
