Formas

in nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora (the mind brings new forms to say that bodies have changed)In Formas Francesco Balzano reconnects with his father, whom he met again after many years, by unfolding an intimate journey—a pilgrimage through Italy in search of his father’s homeland. The analog photographs gathered along the way are fragments of memory: faces, details, glimpses of landscape that restore the poetry of a thread repaired.The book is an artistic object, its pages fold and unfold upon themselves, evoking the shifting nature of memory—overlapping, resurfacing, and transforming over time. The readers are invited to compose their own narrative, as if sifting through a handful of memories. The essential, silent black-and-white images recall a classical, ancient sensibility, where form and chiaroscuro achieve their full expressiveness.