Cinzia Laliscia

Finalmente posso andare

Finalmente posso andare (Finally I Can Go) whispers of a parallel and suspended inner world, where farewells remain unspoken. In 2020, during Italy’s first lockdown, I lost my grandmother and paternal aunt. Their deaths were not due to the virus, but the pandemic made every distance impossible to cross. Being unable to say goodbye in person left a deep wound I could not fully comprehend.

To face this absence, I turned to creative expression. I grew up surrounded by nature: my maternal grandparents have always lived in the Umbrian mountains, in a village of only eight inhabitants. That landscape, wild and familiar, has always offered me comfort. In its silence, I recognized a language I could understand.

During lockdown, I immersed myself in my photographic archive, reconnecting with the outside world and composing a visual diary. When restrictions eased, I continued building this narrative through familiar landscapes and hidden human figures. Within these imagined geographies, I confronted reality. Light emerged as a guiding thread, a silent witness to transformation.

Six years later, their absence remains a daily presence, in shared spaces and in silences that catch me off guard. It gives me peace to imagine that those who have left us — people and animals alike — dwell in a luminous world, untouched by harm.

Project in the frame of Giovane Fotografia Italiana #13 – VOCI / VOICES

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Cinzia Laliscia