Diachronicles
Dublin Core
Title
Diachronicles
Subject
Fine Art
Description
Diachronicles is an examination of the historical space, regarded as a fictional container where an apparent collection of evidence opens up to the fantastic. In this space, the attempt to reconstruct the past falls into phantasmal gaps, where things are generated, used, buried, unearthed, transported, and relocated.
This nomadic and fragmentary nature of what has been left behind, reveals how the movement, transfiguration, and misinterpretation of objects shape historiography and ultimately, the real.
In the impossible search of academic legitimation, the viewer is invited into a world where the factual and the fake overlap. The work is about the absence of memory and addresses the leading role archaeology, photography and the museum space play in a historical narrative. In doing so, the human body is used to suggest scale and as a means to display objects.
Furthermore, Diachronicles digs into a parallel history, filled with disappearances, figures to decode, nonexistent artefacts and forgeries hidden in museums basements
This nomadic and fragmentary nature of what has been left behind, reveals how the movement, transfiguration, and misinterpretation of objects shape historiography and ultimately, the real.
In the impossible search of academic legitimation, the viewer is invited into a world where the factual and the fake overlap. The work is about the absence of memory and addresses the leading role archaeology, photography and the museum space play in a historical narrative. In doing so, the human body is used to suggest scale and as a means to display objects.
Furthermore, Diachronicles digs into a parallel history, filled with disappearances, figures to decode, nonexistent artefacts and forgeries hidden in museums basements
Creator
Giulia Parlato
Publisher
Witty Books
Date
2023
Format
Soft cover with Swiss binding
Book Item Type Metadata
Dimensions
24x30 cm
Number of Pages
120
Number of images
50
Edition Size
500 copies
Place of Publication
Italy
Designer
Nicolas Polli
Editor
Witty Books
Printer
Grafiche Veneziane
ISBN
979-12-80177-21-6
Website
giuliaparlato.com
URL Link to project
https://www.giuliaparlato.com/diachronicles
Where to buy
https://witty-books.com/Diachronicles-Giulia-Parlato
Links to reviews
https://davidcampany.com/something-lost-something-gained/
https://www.internazionale.it/foto/2023/02/20/cronache-incertezza-diachronicles
https://phmuseum.com/news/of-columns-and-lizards-vitrines-and-stones-the-shimmering-pasts-of-giulia-parlatos-diachronicles
https://www.wallpaper.com/art/photography-books-wallpaper-edit
https://www.internazionale.it/foto/2023/02/20/cronache-incertezza-diachronicles
https://phmuseum.com/news/of-columns-and-lizards-vitrines-and-stones-the-shimmering-pasts-of-giulia-parlatos-diachronicles
https://www.wallpaper.com/art/photography-books-wallpaper-edit
Citation
Giulia Parlato, “Diachronicles,” Photo Book Cafe Archive, accessed April 30, 2025, https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/items/show/783.