CONNECTION

Connection is a photography project exploring the invisible relationship between human consciousness and the Mnemosphere — an imagined space in which memories, emotions, and personal experiences continue to exist beyond ordinary awareness.

As human beings, we possess the ability not only to experience emotions and memories, but also to preserve, collect, and carry them throughout our lives. Every experience leaves a trace within us, becoming part of an intricate inner landscape where memories intertwine with emotions, associations, desires, and fears. Much of this landscape remains hidden within the subconscious, existing beyond the boundaries of our immediate perception.

The Mnemosphere can be understood as an abstract, timeless space where these fragments of experience remain suspended. It is neither entirely past nor present. Memories do not simply disappear with time; they transform, becoming part of the invisible structure through which we understand ourselves and the world around us.

Connection visualizes the possibility of reaching into this space—to establish a link between conscious awareness and the memories that exist beneath it. This connection becomes a form of return: an attempt to bring forgotten or dormant experiences back into consciousness and allow them to be experienced once again.

The act of remembering is therefore not simply an act of looking backward. To re-experience a memory is to encounter it through the person we have become. Each return changes its meaning, as the present self inevitably reshapes the perception of the past.

Our memories and emotions become the foundations of identity. They influence how we interpret reality, what we desire, what we hope for, and what we fear. Our expectations of the future are, in many ways, built upon fragments of what we have already experienced.

Through the project Connection, photography becomes a passage between the visible and the invisible, the conscious and the subconscious, the present and the remembered. The works invite reflection on the possibility that within each of us exists an unseen world of accumulated experiences—and that connecting with this inner space may be one of the ways we discover who we are.

• Experimenta. The Other Photography, photo, video and visual international exhibition, organised by Loosenart, Rome, 2022