CRAI deriva/cairano www.de-riva.net
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I go seeking fragments of lost identities,
and I associate them to the places where they have been found ,which are as well places of abandon and loss: history, memory, ,lost,found,residual,third landscape,village ,rural ,identity,smocks sewing, fabric, ,map, psychogeography.
De-riva is a site specific project disposal :it explores places where the anthropization has passed like a sudden and passing cataclysm, or where human presence have been erased by cataclysm (in this case heartquakes, emigration ).
The shoe is a subject-pretext as it is the most powerful among the catalyzers of such identities coming from far away in time and space , waiting for being re-collected and re-vealed. Every “collection” ofshoes is a documentary which narrates the places, different every time, and the situation of the “discovery”. Deriva , shoes ,abandoned ,lost,found,residual,third landscape,village ,rural ,identity,smocks sewing, fabric, ,map, psychogeography,documentare, history, memory-
