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Personal statement of the Italian photographer, Sonia LENZI.
"I've always loved visiting other people's homes, not so much to see how people live their daily lives, but to try to understand them better and [...] participate in their lives." (Sonia LENZI)
Background information
"'Take Me to Live with You' by Sonia LENZI is a declaration of love for Italy and its people, inspired by a personal life story. The Italian photographer lives and works in Bologna and London. Her artistic practice takes an interdisciplinary approach and revolves around interrelated themes such as identity, the memories of people and places, mortality and gender.
Content
For her series 'Take Me to Live With You', published as a book of photographs, Sonia LENZI photographed with elderly people in Italy. They act as parental role models who have certain cultural, political and moral values to transmit. Her attempt to preserve these values for future generations results in a kind of social family album in which places, objects, images and texts associated with these people communicate vicariously." (© Kehrer Verlag, 2021)