Materials: Trayma sculpture made with plant-based silk threads, retractable fiber, regenerated cotton, linen, and hemp; watercolor intervention; solidified with plant-based... Read More
Materials: Trayma sculpture made with plant-based silk threads, retractable fiber, regenerated cotton, linen, and hemp; watercolor intervention; solidified with plant-based resin. Load-bearing structure in untreated iron. Sealed with wax signature.
Concept: Part of a broader investigation into the reconstruction of the self through trauma, Memoria includes performative actions in which the audience is invited to symbolically “transfer” their pain into an object. In this alchemical gesture, Caterina Roppo takes on the role of mediator: making the invisible visible, transforming the wound into language, and experience into a shared threshold.
Memoria is a sculpture that appears as a stone, yet subverts its nature—it is a stone without weight, the image of a trauma that has been traversed. The pain remains, but the burden disperses. The work becomes both threshold and vessel, a fragile and dense body where untold stories, inherited gestures, and collective silences are sedimented.
Crafted in Trayma: a ritual textile conceived by the artist as symbolic skin, Memoria pulses with a subtle tension between gravity and lightness, between matter that holds and matter that releases. The form does not represent; it activates. It invites us to touch the material as one touches a wound: with care. To recognize violence not as an isolated episode, but as an element that connects or disconnects, depending on how we confront it.
