Serena Zeppilli, Expired_14_2020, Photograph

This photograph Expired_14_2020 was taken by the Italian photographer Serena Zeppilli. It is part of the series "I was looking for something that I have seen already". Fine art print on baryta paper. Limited edition of 6. Hand-signed and numbered on the back. Photos have been made with expired 35mm films that the artist has found in her parents' old garage in Porto San Giorgio, her hometown. "I was young, I was kid and province's life where I grow up started to be restrict for me. I decided to leave, going away, leaving my small country: my family, my sea, my hills. While I was going everything appeared easier, even was far, I was sure that there I could have found something better, even because anyway I knew that I could come back anytime. I have smelt, I have touched, I have seen, I have tasted, I have heard; sometimes I have found something as well. I did not think to return. Come back home is never easy after so long, I felt like departure and arrive points were going to overlap and dissolve at the same time. Everything seemed the same even it was so different. I am definitely back home. I have started to play with smells, flavors and noises again, senses that I have forgotten already. Outside everything seemed charmer, maybe better, unstable for sure. I have occupied a place for a while, stealing it to someone else, filling it and suddenly emptying it for the next one on the list. Now I certainly believe that the place that I was looking for is waiting for me, it has a space just for me, it has always been in my mind and even if can be difficult to stay in there, it is the only one that at the moment I can recognize as mine."