Elena Lovisolo



Tutto ciò che resta
2024







I have a habit of taking photos of dead animals I come across on the street and collecting the images in a folder on my phone. Over time, I have noticed how this action of mine – which is completely normal for me – arouses amazement in people. I began to wonder: why did I start this collection? Why was I attracted to this subject? Why did it elicit this reaction from others? This zine, combining images and words, attempts to answer these questions.
Death has always fascinated me, terrified and fascinated me, perhaps because I have brushed against it many times, but it has not become my companion in life, always present in its absence.
Absence or transition?
This is a question that wears me down.
Some time ago, I started photographing lifeless animals
all that remains is the shell, the body that housed that vital spark that made them be
It is disturbing how death is before our eyes every day, but we ignore it
almost disgusted by those beings
crushed, almost exploded, under the wheels of a car
or simply slumped there, intact but helpless
They are emblematic of what we hide with every technique possible
devising rituals and hiding from view what will inevitably be our destiny
They are the evidence that terrifies us
because that is all that remains