Title: Oyster
Artist: Marco Marzocchi
VOID, 2019
Design by Joao Linneu
Pearled softcover. Leporello book
138 x 162 mm
84 pages
480 numbered copies
ISBN: 9786188434103
Made over the course of 10 years, “Oyster” is a visual diary compiled by Marzocchi as clues to understand his absent parents. At times bordering on frustration and violence, his images express his search for a ‘culprit’, a cause for his dysfunctional childhood environment. Using archival and original imagery, the artist ransacks the past to build a presence in a process of forgiving and letting go, as a quest to find love and healing.
Marzocchi had to reevaluate his whole family history from the point of view of an adult. And close a circle. Like an Ouroboros.
- From the publisher’s website
Made over the course of 10 years, “Oyster” is a visual diary compiled by Marzocchi as clues to understand his absent parents. At times bordering on frustration and violence, his images express his search for a ‘culprit’, a cause for his dysfunctional childhood environment. Using archival and original imagery, the artist ransacks the past to build a presence in a process of forgiving and letting go, as a quest to find love and healing.
Marzocchi had to reevaluate his whole family history from the point of view of an adult. And close a circle. Like an Ouroboros.
- From the publisher’s website
