“D’Addario addresses the problems associated with remembering and how memory and photography are inextricably linked to place, time, nostalgia and forgetting. In doing so, she creates a work that is a carefully considered exploration of photography’s value and application as a tool for symbolic, emotional and poetic communication.
~ Dr. Ella Dreyfus
Visual artist and academic at the National Art School, Sydney, Australia”
DEEP IN THEIR ROOTS, ALL FLOWERS KEEP THE LIGHT
Publication Date: 2019
Artwork type: Limited Edition Photo Book
Medium: Photographic
Dimensions: 23.3cm W x 16cm x 1cm D
Binding Type: Hand sewn
Edition Size: 350
Additional: Soft cover with vellum, cotton wove, GSK paper
Winner of the 2019 Photoboox Award, supported by ceiba editions, Photolux Festival and Grafiche dell’Artiere
Contributor
Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario (Artist)
Publisher
Origin
Australia
Nominations
Finalist Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize 2021, Named one of the best Antipodean books of 2019, Cooper + Spowart
For those wishing to purchase a copy from Australia from the artist please email anna@annamariaantoinette.com
Description
On the occasion of the 2019 edition of the Photolux Festival. International Biennial of Photography, Photolux with ceiba editions and Grafiche dell’Artiere promotes an international contest dedicated to photobooks. The award is aimed to recognize the best unpublished editorial projects, giving them a broad visibility and a chance for publication. The jury was touched by the poetic way the artist worked on grief as a response to the tragic death of her sister. Deep in Their Roots, All Flowers Keep the Light, is a new adapted trade publication of D’Addario’s artist book, Farewell Angelina.
Printed by Grafiche dell’Artiere, Italy
ISBN 978-88-941-960-9-2
Collections
Rome National Central Library (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma)
Florence National Central Library (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze)
Piccolomini Library Siena
Photo Eye Santa Fe America, Galerie
OstLicht Austria
SIPF Singapore
École nationale supérieure de la photographie Arles, France
Private Collections - National and international
Other information: Read an interview about the work with Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario and Italian independent curator Benedetta Donato here.
“Anna Maria’s use of photography as her medium which has both the potential for forensic analysis and emotive metaphor, conjures her sister through the fragile existence of memory that becomes the journey the reader travels with her.
This work is an evocation of the power of the imagination through art to attempt to make visible the invisible; the make possible the impossible and to make bearable the unbearable.
~ Dr Julie Rrap Visual artist and academic at Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia”
“This work began as a response to the loss of my sister in 2015. It was an act of resistance and of survival, an attempt to speak in the face of silence, and with time, it has developed into an autobiographical handmade bookwork that contains within its pages, a photographic elegy for my sister.”
FAREWELL ANGELINA
Publication Date: 2018
Artwork type: Limited Edition Handmade Artist’s Book
Medium: Photographic
Dimensions: 19 cm W x 27.5 cm H x 4.7 cm D
Binding Type: Concertina
Edition Size: 8
Additional: Custom made black linen clamshell box
For more information or to acquire this work for an institution contact the artist.
Contributor
Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario (artist)
Origin
Australia
Collection Enquires
For acquisitions please email
Description
Farewell Angelina is an autobiographical handmade artist's bookwork developed in response to the violent loss of the author's sister in 2015. The photographic bookwork itself reads in a traditional way but also folds out into concertina form. Archival pigment printed on Japanese Mulberry Kozo fibre based handmade paper. It contains vellum pages, an individual inserted hand sewn booklet and inserted separate text pages and gatefolds. It has a black linen hardcover (white embossing) and sits inside a matching black linen clamshell box that has a black embossed title.
Printed by Momento Pro, Australia
ISBN 978-0-6483339-0-6
Collections
National Library of Australia (Ed. 1/8)
State Library of NSW (Ed. 3/8)
Private collection
Awards
Photo Lux PhotoBoox Award 2019 Winner, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2019 Highly Commended.
Other information: This work was developed alongside a research investigation following a journey of grief explored poetically and with urgency through photography and the creation of a photographic bookwork. This bookmaking process reveals an autobiographical inquiry into the power of photographic art practice to respond to trauma, loss and grief and to help shape meaning in the aftermath. Theorised is the capacity of artistic mediums, such as photography, to house memory and give form to otherwise inchoate and chaotic emotions and doing so, help us to shape the meaning we make of our lives and our worlds after profound loss. This inquiry, which responds directly to personal history, also reflects on art’s ability to create sites for grief and mourning. The thesis is currently available for research purposes with the Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University library database.