p.20 – “Always you will be asked for your story: after (the accent twigged) ‘Where are you from?’ comes ‘And what brings you here?’ – because, so the thinking goes, this story defines the individual, for better or for worse. You are the embodiment of your story and if people don’t know the beginning or middle, how can they predict the end? May you stay? Must you go? You will probably have a long version and a short version and both will, over time, be well rehearsed.”
Franca is a book -designer, -binder and archivist. Her practice concerns the investigation of experience-based knowledge and how it can be translated into publications and tools for its transmission. Personal explorations, walking and conversations with people are moments to collect traces she later combines with writing (words and images) to create narrations between elements seemingly distant. She is especially attracted to leftover elements and spaces, anecdotes, dog-eared pages and documenting changes through time – you can read some of her notes in the Journal.
She still hardly believe the mountains – she for so long dreamed to have closer – are just a few steps out of the door.
