Ella Rizzi
Melbourne (Naarm)she/her
Imitami, 2024-25
Imitami is a collection of works exploring the indiscriminate parts of my past - like a day at my grandparents' house or an image of an unacquainted, long-past ancestor in a photo album. With reference to family archive and photography, the collection has recurring symbols and differing states of recognition or familiar figurations; they share only a glimpse of familiarity. The paintings oscillate between confusion and understanding - loss and recognition. The works tell a narrative, much like reading pages of a diary or flicking through a photo album - telling the intimate feelings and showing singular moments, but falling short of revealing a complete, understandable narrative.
The collection investigates the concept of memory - how memories evolve with idealisation and how photography influences our memory.
Reviewed by Rachel Liu, Mass Memo Review
Exhibited at VCA Graduation Show.
Exhibited at West End Projects for Bloom: Grad Show.