Sara Francola

This work reconstructs fragments of the author’s past relationship, pieced together from its remains. The set presented is a copy of a copy of a space.

Inspired by Val del Omar’s vision of cinema, the work parallels blinking and the gaps between film frames. Just as the camera assembles reality from isolated images, never fully capturing events as they unfold, the characters blink out of sync, disrupting the illusion of a shared gaze.

As the characters process their emotions through an imaginative performance, a past dialogue of text messages is reenacted, transforming a private conversation into a public reflection. The work explores the memory between two people as a constructed and contested space, highlighting the difficulty of mutual understanding when we can only grasp fragments of each other’s worlds. In re-staging interpersonal dynamics through the mechanics of the camera, the author suggests that creation is never neutral, as it is shaped by what is interpreted, altered and lost. At the heart of this work lies a question: who controls the narrative of a shared memory?