work
Missing
| category | Painting |
| subject | Human figure, Political / Social, Travels |
| tags | persone, tempo, assenza, memoria, viaggio, essenza, società |
| base | 100 cm |
| height | 40 cm |
| depth | 0 cm |
| year | 2025 |
Technical data sheet
Title: Missing
Size: 100x40cm
Technique: Mixed media/painting and experimental printmaking
Substrate: Metal plate
Edition: Unpublished, not reproducible
An engraved, painted, and layered metal plate, marked by traces of printing, faces, and fragments of text. The work evokes collective memory, the passage of time, and the idea of travel as a social and interior journey. A visual landscape suspended between presence and absence.
This work presents itself as a metal sheet marked by engravings and printing residues, where the image never presents itself as a stable unit, but as a layering of traces. Faces, words, and worn surfaces emerge and disappear, constructing a visual field in which memory is fragmented and continually rewritten.
Metal, a resistant and industrial material, here becomes a vulnerable support: engraved, abraded, traversed by time. The surface retains signs of a society in flux, made up of partial identities, evanescent presences, and interrupted narratives. The journey is represented not as a geographical displacement, but as an existential condition: a traversal of states, eras, and social roles.
Time acts as a force both corrosive and generative, erasing and revealing. In this process, the work takes the form of an unstable archive, in which what is missing—the "missing"—becomes a central element, a space for reflection on the relationship between the individual and the collective, between private memory and shared imagination.
Elisabetta Accoto
Title: Missing
Size: 100x40cm
Technique: Mixed media/painting and experimental printmaking
Substrate: Metal plate
Edition: Unpublished, not reproducible
An engraved, painted, and layered metal plate, marked by traces of printing, faces, and fragments of text. The work evokes collective memory, the passage of time, and the idea of travel as a social and interior journey. A visual landscape suspended between presence and absence.
This work presents itself as a metal sheet marked by engravings and printing residues, where the image never presents itself as a stable unit, but as a layering of traces. Faces, words, and worn surfaces emerge and disappear, constructing a visual field in which memory is fragmented and continually rewritten.
Metal, a resistant and industrial material, here becomes a vulnerable support: engraved, abraded, traversed by time. The surface retains signs of a society in flux, made up of partial identities, evanescent presences, and interrupted narratives. The journey is represented not as a geographical displacement, but as an existential condition: a traversal of states, eras, and social roles.
Time acts as a force both corrosive and generative, erasing and revealing. In this process, the work takes the form of an unstable archive, in which what is missing—the "missing"—becomes a central element, a space for reflection on the relationship between the individual and the collective, between private memory and shared imagination.
Elisabetta Accoto
