Tua Sorella (Your Sister)

2019-2020

In the early 1980s, the movements were always reflected in the trio : reflux, armed struggle and heroin.
The three elements that characterized that tragic period.
Telling an increasingly widespread topic, social unrest, rebellion, drugs and freedom. This story is my sister’s.

At 23 she committed suicide and I’m giving her back the life she didn’t live, she taught me to love. Orienting myself towards the contemporary, using the language and dimension of street art, keeping faith with the promises of love between sisters and making her travel the world, as she was unable to do. An exhibition and a communication strategy inspired by street art to make it an icon. An exhibition that develops with the natural involvement of people and artists from all over the world.

Veronica Barbato - TUA SORELLA from TK-21 on Vimeo.

I launched a communication campaign by means of posters. Witness the fundamental role of art in defining perception.

A photographic exhibition in continuous movement "on the road" In the photos I insert bright colors to represent hallucinations, phrases taken from his secret diaries, glitter describe the false illusion of drugs, mixing the past and the present.

This project was born from a letter received five years after her death, it was undoubtedly her. The same words, the same way of expressing through another person, who acted as an intermediary, this letter saved me from a continuous gravitational collapse. The project is the result of a social redemption, bringing back my sister, the protagonist of a life never lived. In the photographic archive there are images of Mary in various disguises, like a real star.

I was inspired by the idea of fragility and the relationship between death and life. Time freezes when a loss becomes infinite.
With her, my childhood never lost its magic, with her, it never lost its drama.
Love does not end, death does not separate us.