LASSÙ

2025  in collaboration with Dolomiti Contemporanee  

The photographic serie Lassù (Up There) emerges from the encounter between matter and memory, between geography and biography. This visual research revolves around the cemetery of Cortina d’Ampezzo, a liminal space where human presence meets the form of the mountain in a direct, visible, and concrete dialogue.

The sculpted tombs, carved into silhouettes that echo the surrounding peaks, reveal a gesture at once simple and profound. In this act of shaping stone, the mountain becomes a vessel of memory and identity. 
The faces of these individuals — preserved in stone — are not just family memories: they are declarations of belonging, material testimonies of an identity that seeks to become eternal, inseparable from the landscape.
Walking among these graves means entering a collective narrative, silent yet emotionally dense, where the iconography of the landscape overlaps with that of mourning, of belonging, of permanence.

In an Alpine context currently undergoing rapid transformations- environmental, infrastructural, and economic — these photographs linger on what endures.
They reflect on what it means to belong to a place, and to be shaped by it in return.


This project was developed within the framework of an artist residency organized by CFP Bauer, as part of the territorial research initiative "Anatomia e Dinamica di un Territorio", directed by Professor Giorgio Barrera.