Angelo Vignali
How To Raise A Hand

Exhibition Details

Following his father’s death, Angelo Vignali approached the enormous archive of photographs and drawings that his parent produced throughout his life, among which was a cardboard box with 313 handmade prints containing cutouts of photographs of his fingers. The author found himself working with countless fragments of the lost body, impossible to piece together. Yet, a new type of unity emerged as he began to make various casts of his own hands: identical to those of the father, the wax replicas allowed him to re-experience the sensation of his touch, embodied and multiplied through the growing presence of these inanimate objects. Moving between touch and vision, the work uses archival photography, performance, and sculpture to explore the themes of family, memory, and loss within a search for identity that raises existential questions.