Absence/presence. (im)possible Images By Moira Ricci
The greeks often confronted death in a shy way. Whatever they had in front of them was in their past. That is how I have lived my life, not retracing my own life but the life of a person that I had loved. (1). This is how Roland Barthes describes in La camera chiara the moment of his mothers death, who, looking through the pictures of his mother throughout the years, tries to meet her again, to find her in some way. This is how Moira Ricci proceeded, she later confirmed that she had been inspired by Barthes, which is obvious in her most famous project called 20,12,53-10,08,04 (2) produced after her mother's sudden death.... READ MORE...

















