The project features photographs by Giuseppe Curcio and Julia Gounon. The book is divided into six chapters that traverse and intertwine graphic and photographic languages with scientific methodologies. Each phase represents a moment in the process of transforming a series of fragmentary finds, in a constant oscillation between documentation and fiction. It starts with the archive of the original material, in which the fragments are catalogued and photographed with analytical rigour, and then moves on to a phase of hypothetical reconstruction through illustrations and sketches that imagine their original appearance. This is followed by documentation of the destruction carried out by archaeologists, an ambiguous gesture between scientific act and symbolic violence. The fragments are then graphically reassembled into new sculptural configurations, in a process of invention that replaces the logic of philological reconstruction. This is followed by the creation of a new archive, orderly but artificial, which restores a semblance of systematicity to the chaos generated. The book concludes with a phase of false cataloguing: the works are contextualised in an imaginary landscape, completing a visual and narrative cycle that questions the boundaries between reality, invention and memory.
