Elisa Roman - DÉJÀ-VU
A piano diploma and an architectural degree in my pocket. I worked first as an architect and music teacher, then as a technology teacher. Always attracted by the visual arts, I have become particularly passionate about photography, which I have deepened over time through various courses and workshops. Documentary photography aimed at everyday life represents the fulcrum of my work.
I shoot out of urgency, driven by a strong inner urge: to celebrate the poetry of everyday life, made up of apparently negligible details, gestures and scenarios but which carry within them a profound beauty, so much so that they remain indelibly imprinted in our being for a lifetime, like a sort of acquired DNA. A kind of antidote against time that escapes. Some details, more than others, delve into the memory.
This is a collection of shots that are part of my research work. Youth is a recurring constant. A kind of dejavu. A temporary disruption in the perception of time. Perhaps an error in processing and storing information. Or the result of casual similarities between current situations and past memories, which create an impression of illusory familiarity.
It is a strange and sometimes surprising sensation, a suspended dimension. Perhaps the revealed melancholy for what has already been? It is an intertwining of past and present, an opportunity for rediscovery: for me photographs become real vehicles of time, which cross eras and connect with their roots in profound and significant ways in a continuous becoming and returning.
A cyclical path in which moments, seasons and circumstances repeat themselves. The life. Visual reminiscences and evocative suggestions through which, retracing some traits common to each growth path, one can also recognize traces of the universal path of individual identity construction. Basically, for nostalgic people. For all those who, stuck in the ordinariness of life, have forgotten what they were like when they were young.
