Collages (C-print and paper)
variable dimensions
unique edition
In her Sharp Memories collage series, Constanza Piaggio directly engages with photographic paper, tearing its surface in a deliberate gesture of rupture and absence. This radical act exposes the materiality of the image, revealing its fragility—both physical and symbolic—and dismantling any sense of neutrality.
Using photographic images composed of natural elements and fragments of artworks, Piaggio constructs a visual language where repetition and accumulation resonate like echoes of history and human intervention on the environment. The wounded surface—cut, displaced, exposed—becomes a metaphorical landscape, reflecting the marks we leave on the world and the tension between nature and human presence.
Sharp Memories offers a critical reading of the image as a territory shaped by conflict. In this poetic, matérial gesture, Piaggio traces the imprint of human presence, emphasizing our role as a formative force in the ongoing transformation of the planet during the Anthropocene.
In this series, her gaze turns to the historical representation of women, revealing the idealized gestures that, repeated across images, have reduced and distorted the feminine. By intervening in these figures, she unveils the tension between beauty and violence, transforming these traces into a space of resistance, where the female body is no longer a passive object of contemplation but a living, fragmented, and evolving territory, asserting its presence in dialogue with history, memory, and time.
