Alejandro Cesarco – Three Books on Memory

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Three Books on Memory puts in relation the gallery’s original impetus for opening its space in Liguria and Alejandro Cesarco’s ongoing investigation into the different methodologies of documenting, describing, and accounting for the passage of time, and the forms used to recall it.

For Raffaella “Albisola is a room, a room that has to do with art and with the simple story of my life. Our origins are the foundation of our identity.

”Memory, at its most basic, is the action of telling a story. But what is the role of fiction in these attempts of returning and of retelling? And, are memories something we have or something we have lost?

Memory and the differences that occur when narratives are repeated over time are central and recurring motifs in Cesarco’s work — over the years he has grappled with them through different strategies and forms.

More generally, his practice is drawn to fragmentary, marginal, or minor forms, like lists, indexes, diaries, and in this case footnotes. It is the concreteness of these forms and the clarity of their address that appeals to him. The Footnotes are an ongoing series of wall drawings, began in 2006, that reimagines the wall where they are presented as if it were a page from a book. The Footnotes seemingly clarify and refer to a text that is, however, not made available, that is absent or escaping. In Albisola, the artist presents three footnotes, from three different imaginary (unwritten) books that in distinct ways deal with questions of remembering and forgetting.