A series of textile collages intertwining the history of the Italian Fascist invasion of Ethiopia with the life story of my grandfather, Hamlet, who emigrated to Harar as a settler. Both stories have been shrouded in silence. By combining family albums with archival material, I seek to bring to light an uncomfortable past that has largely been silenced.

 

Living in Brazil has helped me confront these silenced memories and recognise the enduring colonial structures of violence, domination, erasure, and the destruction of lives, cultures, and beliefs. It has also deepened my awareness of the responsibilities that Italy, and by extension the Global North, continue to bear in relation to the persistence of colonial structures and power.

 

Hamlet in Harar has been exhibited at Galeria ICG and at the European Photography Festival 2017 / Circuit Off