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Kochan (signed)

by Alessandra Calò

Photographs: Alessandra Calò

Publisher: Danilo Montanari Editore

32 pages

Year: 2022

Price: 59 €

Comments: 32 × 22 cm; Italian/English; Limited Edition of 100

"Kochan is a name. He is the protagonist of the Japanese novel Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima, 1949). This novel serves as a kind of a travel diary that leads the reader to discover the identity and life fragments of its protagonist. Kochan is also the name of my photographic project, one that I began in 2016 when I discovered that the New York Public Library had posted a large part of its archival documents online. The recovery and reuse of old materials is the starting point of my research and production as an artist. My work with archival materials allows me to create new universes and tell new stories each time, and it also makes it possible for me to take a real “journey” into the photographic image. I spent entire days looking at maps, manuscripts, and letters. But I was especially attracted to the maps, and, using their signs and traces, I decided to combine them with a series of self-portraits. In this project, like Kochan, I tried to imagine the journey that each of us makes in order to affirm our own self. Conceiving of the body as a territory to be explored, I realized that nothing can be considered definitive: the boundaries are always redrawn, and all is subject to change, from the physical territory to our attitudes, actions, and relationship toward Nature and fellow human beings."

- Alessandra Calò

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Kochan (signed)

by Alessandra Calò

Photographs: Alessandra Calò

Publisher: Danilo Montanari Editore

32 pages

Year: 2022

Price: 59 €

Comments: 32 × 22 cm; Italian/English; Limited Edition of 100

"Kochan is a name. He is the protagonist of the Japanese novel Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima, 1949). This novel serves as a kind of a travel diary that leads the reader to discover the identity and life fragments of its protagonist. Kochan is also the name of my photographic project, one that I began in 2016 when I discovered that the New York Public Library had posted a large part of its archival documents online. The recovery and reuse of old materials is the starting point of my research and production as an artist. My work with archival materials allows me to create new universes and tell new stories each time, and it also makes it possible for me to take a real “journey” into the photographic image. I spent entire days looking at maps, manuscripts, and letters. But I was especially attracted to the maps, and, using their signs and traces, I decided to combine them with a series of self-portraits. In this project, like Kochan, I tried to imagine the journey that each of us makes in order to affirm our own self. Conceiving of the body as a territory to be explored, I realized that nothing can be considered definitive: the boundaries are always redrawn, and all is subject to change, from the physical territory to our attitudes, actions, and relationship toward Nature and fellow human beings."

- Alessandra Calò

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