Stefano Marchionini

Stefano Marchionini was born in Verbania, Italy in 1985. He moved to Paris, France, in 2010 where he currently lives and works. He graduated with a degree in painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 2008 and is now a 4th year student at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. His photographs seek to explore his understanding of home, his family and his ongoing appreciation for distance in respects to age and place.

I see around me tombstones grey I see around me tombstones grey is not only about a physical space.   After having spent some years far from my parents I have understood that wherever they are, it is their nearness that gives me the feeling of being at home.  It could be in my hometown on the Lake Maggiore, that I left almost ten years ago, or where my father used to work.  As I started taking picture of them, of my family, I noticed that there was a different atmosphere compared to the feel my life away from them has.  It is true that whenever I stay home for a few weeks I realize that their/our reality is becoming more dramatic every year: oldness, sickness, retirement and a general feel of inquietude.  However it is thanks to this that I know where I come from and where I want (or don't want) to be.  