BRCA

This ongoing project opens up a space for reflection on whether trauma at the genetic level can be transmitted from one generation to the next. It is rooted in an inner need to give form to the telling of my family history, marked by the BRCA genetic mutation, which significantly increases the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer and which, in my family, has been passed down through four generations of women.
An X-ray image of my mother’s breast becomes the surface for a sound track drawn from my family archive, where medical imagery and intimate memory intersect.

“I seek to explore the weight of genetic inheritance as it moves from one generation to the next, leaving traces on bodies. It is a narrative about accepting limits – of the body, of science – but it also becomes a reflection on mystery, on what cannot be explained, repaired, or interrupted. It unfolds into a journey of transformation and acceptance, in which times, places, destinies, faces, and sounds intermingle, and where fragments of the past intertwine to give rise to new, unexpected forms of the present.”

As part of the project and research, the work features a conversation with Dr. Caterina Congregati, which will also appear in the book titled BRCA.
The links to download it are available below.