SCULPTURE SERIES

Tragodia Series

In the Tragodia Series, Trapani explores a beauty shaped by memory and experience. These are moments of nostalgia, and sometimes melancholy, remembered in a fleeting and uncertain way, as if rediscovered somewhere else. There is a sense of history, but the original setting has been lost. The portraits hold a personal experience that has not been fully preserved. They become archives of gathered or reclaimed memories that reveal themselves now and then, as if found by accident while looking for something else.

The portraits are not of any one person. Trapani draws them from many sources, combining recollections of different people: details glimpsed in passing, or remembered from past relationships. A sense of longing runs through the sculptures, heightened by the architectural ruins that merge with, and emerge from, the once-majestic figures.

Tragodia III

Tragodia VI

Tragodia IX