“Do-li-na is an ongoing visual research exploring the relationships between memory, landscape, and identity in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, a borderland where Italian, Slovenian, Friulian, and German cultures intersect.

The project began with a personal discovery: only after my grandmother’s death did I learn of her concealed Slovenian heritage, together with documents linked to the fascist Italianization policies that sought to erase minority identities. What first appeared as a private silence revealed itself as part of a broader historical repression.

The term dolina refers to the karst sinkholes that shape the region’s landscape. In the work, these geological formations become metaphors for the layered and often fragmented nature of memory.

Through photographs, archival fragments, oral narratives, and nocturnal recordings, the project explores the tension between representation and omission, questioning how images participate in the construction of historical narratives.

Installed as a constellation of images, documents, and testimonies — echoing the form of local village notice boards — the work stages encounters between landscapes, archival traces, and the people who inhabit them, unsettling the apparent stability of historical narratives.”

You can also find a video edit tailored for this article, while the project itself takes different shapes each time it is presented, in order to resist a fixed interpretation.