Insieme Abbiamo Avvolto I Nostri Segreti in una Foglia
Together We Wrapped Our Secrets in a Leaf
2021—2023

This project explores the topic of gender-based violence, its resistance, and the wider demand for women’s rights with a geopolitical focus on the North-Eastern part of Italy. The research began over two years ago when I first approached the anti-violence center, called the Centro Donna (Woman’s Centre), based in the town of Mestre, in the province of Venice. This work comes in the form of a printed thesis, which contains over 50 images produced and collected during the field research. The photographic documentation is encompassed by the written component that collects personal accounts of the participants, which are aligned with feminist writings to question the complexity of silencing gender-based violence. By weaving archival images from the 1970s with contemporary documentation, I research in what ways images can become a form of collective feminist memory.