Claudia Ammirata

The inspiration for this photographic series arose while I was on a train in Italy at the end of 2019. At high speed, while contemplating the landscape through my window, I realized that what I witnessed utterly remained left behind in the blink of an eye. A continuation and passage of an instant soon to be fleeting in fractions of a second. Everything around us seemingly was being forgotten.
Realizing that all exists in transience, flight, and disappearance, ignited within me a profound certainty that both the moment and our bodies are ephemeral and that our memories of the past will grow more and more distant.
Along with those moments that will be definitely lost in time, this sense of impermanence motivated me to record situations that manifest themselves poetically, focusing on capturing the essence of instances that otherwise would never be the same.
It was also in my interest to find elements that could somehow connect us to other people’s past. Objects and garments could link the lives of those who’re no longer here with our own life in the present. While those things might pass from one generation to another, sadly, the fragility of our experiences will inevitably continue to fade towards oblivion: there’s no beauty without death.