Agitu Ideo Gudeta Fellowship was awarded to artist
Silvia Rosi in April to support an experimental practice that reflects on the vernacular photo archives of Afrodescendent peoples in Italy as a form of shifting the personal into collective forms of memory and legacy. The proposal envisions a recalibration in value to safeguard and maintain personal and public archives, while attesting to the individual responsibilities that each of us has in regards to caring for and narrating the past. Rosi’s work speaks of the need to trouble the academic perception of archives, which has been overlooked more than it has been conserved.