This project was born from a consideration about the concept of memory, common sense and observing how some of the factors in the process of archiving may affect the contruction of the individual and the collective memory. In front of a still or moving image which represents a hypothesis of memory similar to our own, the dynamics of ownership are usually triggered by attempts of identification of the place, of the historical moment, or the attribution of identity. It is almost a necessity of understanding before the revelation and awareness are then granted by reference data. The dynamics of archiving within the individual, as a function of the cognitive process, can translate and include events sometimes unknown and never lived. “Il tempo di Eva”, is a video which has been projected in a site-specific context during a solo show in Catania, a place strongly characterized by the presence of a volcano. Based on the concept of “appropriation” this video was made in postproduction by manipulating the sequences shot in 1940 by Eva Braun on a volcanic landscape during a trip to Italy. The original film, shot with a video 8 camera, (a gift from her lover Adolf Hitler,) was archived and filed by a US government source after WW2, as a film related to Mount Vesuvius. Officially the eruptions of Vesuvius in the last century date back to 1906 and 1944.
Three texts written on carbon paper, explain the meaning of three words: silence, complicity and memory. These words are legible on the reverse side of the papers by using a mirror. A diagram drawing on the wall outlines the representation of different elements contained inside a closed line. The diagram shows the graphic dynamic of the syllogism whose summary is “silence is not complicit in memory.”
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