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Catalyst project - Francesca Seravalle introducing Kelly O'Brien

I’m Francesca Seravalle and I’m a curator, after fifteen years working and living in Europe I’m back to my city, Venice, as an act of resistance. Normally as a curator, I dive into a project, and like a midwife, I support an artist from the conception to the birth of the book and the exhibition. During the last 6 months I had the pleasure to work with Kelly O’ Brien on her personal project: Are you there? Kelly is Irish-British based in Derby and uses photography as a cathartic opportunity to face her missing father. It’s a story about pictures never taken, about fragmented memories and lack of information. During the research, Kelly found her father on Facebook, too late to meet him as he was already dead. Kelly plays with the photographic medium even beyond its limits: Is it possible to take picture of something that happens in the past or that never happen? How is made our pictorial memory of the past? Can we modify our memory? Every image has origin from a personal question. To find an answer when there is no other possibility, Kelly plays the cards of the clairvoyance and the fiction. What I loved most is her ability to face the dark side of the project on a deep level with even a sense of humor and lightness. Her ability to use many linguistic registers like the mysterious, the desecrating, the playful, and the ambiguous. The project is still ongoing and really soon she will face the social taboo of a reacted funeral, especially in a Covid period, when death from a private issue has become a social issue. A necessary ritual for her to meet the father and to say goodbye to him. As part of Kelly O' Brien, I had the pleasure to work even with Debshudda Banerjee a photographer with an incredible story about her albinos’ Indian aunts. I’m really happy to have collaborated as a mentor on the Catalyst program produced by IC Visual Lab in collaboration with the Bristol Photo Festival and the support of the Arts Council of England. I would like to steal the Catalyst project format because it’s a real good way to cooperate for a long period (6 months) with an international group of professional and young artists in photography, to have a new possibility to work even during the pandemic period and especially to meet Kelly with whom I will work over to the end of the project. Thanks, IC Visual LAB, thanks to Alejandro, Safia, Tracy, and all the other people from the Catalyst project for this opportunity! Everything has its first time is a research project by Francesca Seravalle   / itsfirstime   https://francescaseravalle.cargo.site/   / franck.ska     / thefirstphotos   #everythinghasitsfirstime #francescaseravalle #vintagelove #itsfirstime #mentorrship #photobook #photography #artcurator #photographycurator