KLOTHO

KLOTHO is a photographic project that narrates how, from the encounter of artistic forms with photography, a new work of art can emerge, blending the moments of relationship and creativity inherent in seemingly distant artistic visions.

KLOTHO is the artwork created by the artist Sara Bernabucci from Rome, born entirely spontaneously while this reportage was being realized about her art and the studio where Sara works, so rich in history and memory.

“In the moment when you have an idea and manage to render it into an image with a work of art, of any form, the material, of any type, carries its weight and contributes to making the work universal.” The sensitivity and concreteness of an artist like Sara are deeply conveyed by these words. Words with which she traces her artistic experience and the thought with which she develops her research. A research in continuous evolution, with a flow of creativity and fantasy as unpredictable as it is surprising.

Her artistic vision aims to investigate and redefine reality outside the usual coordinates, in search of “other” dimensions, in that internal space called memory and understood between a past and a continuously metamorphosing present. A space that in Sara’s work is made concrete and traversable, a “place” that can be explored by each person to different depths depending on their own experiences, without betraying the thought that generated it.

This experiential possibility does not live in abstract concepts but in the matter that composes the work and which has primary importance in her work. Thus, the artist’s studio where Sara works and creates has become her forge of ideas, the place where matter and form take shape from each other. An enchanting and mysterious environment, rich in history and tradition that she has personalized, blending her artistic vision with the suggestions of the work that her great-grandfather, a prominent artistic figure of the time, carried out here since the early 1900s.

“I wanted to give this space a movement of my own. By rearranging it, I made it mine, I inserted objects that spoke to me, precisely to make the memory fluid and personal, not one of objective documentation. I was not interested in living in the mausoleum of my great-grandfather’s works; whatever was of him spoke to me and progressively stratified with my works, with continuity.”

And in this context, the encounter of her art with a different visual art like photography represented a new artistic moment, with a common creative movement to both that represents the fruit of this work.