Eleonora Agostini’s exhibition Revolve is presented in collaboration with Cortona On The Move and explores the museum space through the concept of the “fragment”: what remains of the past and, through the museum, is reconstructed and restored to historical narrative.

In a place where artefacts from vanished civilisations are collected, displayed and interpreted, Agostini focuses on absences and on the ways in which the museum attempts to piece together a history from what is missing. Casts, models, reconstructions and archival photographs become indispensable tools, on a par with the original artefacts, and essential to the process of reconstruction. They generate a continuous repetition within museum practice, creating a visual and narrative echo that takes the form of a circular motion reminiscent of a globe — a circumnavigation in search of something, a constellation of fragments seeking to tell the story of a place, a civilisation and multiple histories.

This tension between presence and absence is reflected in Agostini’s visual language, which, through collage, constructs a heterogeneous visual atlas in which solid forms and voids alternate, evoking memory, loss, rediscovery, and the unceasing desire to reconstruct the past.

Eleonora Agostini (1991, Italy) is an Italian artist who lives and works in London. In 2021, she was selected by CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia for the Futures Photography programme.