Memorie del transitare
Memorie del transitare (Memories From Transitioning) is a visual project that explores intimately the artist’s journey through the gender affirming process, experienced as a transgender girl living in the South of Italy.
The aim of the project is to collocate trans representation in a complex visual dimension supporting a central reflection on temporality. Visual standards and narrative codes are dislocated by tracing an emotional and metaphorical diary of “transitioning”, intended as a movement through space, time and gender spectrum.
The artist’s personal story is told by rewriting crucial experiences, processes and sensations such as birth, joy, anger, adolescence and solitude. By sublimating the story the chance to easily connect the images to a specific identity or body is not given to the spectator but a livable visual dimension that acts as a place for solidarity and emotional contamination is created.
The artist’s body becomes a bridge through space, time and gender stereotypes: a vital body that changes shape and constantly re-signifies itself, that is tangible but also conceptual.
Progetto presentato in Giovane Fotografia Italiana #12 | UNIRE / BRIDGING
BIO
Grace Martella
Grace Martella (she/her) was born in 2006, in the province of Lecce. In 2018 she began using photography as a mean for introspection and self awareness thus re-exploring everyday life intimately.
Her photographic research is an investigation about identity, temporality, environment and on how these elements interact with the transgender experience and its representation.
Specifically, through new narrative codes she refers to an imagery in which both personal experience and political awareness resonate, dislocating specific visual paradigms.