Do-li-na
2026
Do-li-na explores the connections between images, memory, and identity in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, a region where Italian, Slovenian, Friulian, and German cultures intersect. This forested territory, with hidden borders, has seen different cultures and peoples coexist. The rediscovery of the artist’s grandmother’s history, whose Slovenian heritage was suppressed by fascist Italianization policies, led him to investigate how images and archives determine what is remembered or erased.
Combining large- and medium-format photography, archival traces, and nocturnal videos, Do-li-na examines how landscapes, myths, and oral traditions preserve a memory that History omits. In these valleys between Italy, Austria, and Slovenia, the work rejects linear narratives and reveals the fragile boundary between seeing and knowing, myth and reality.
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About the artist
Born in Sicily in 1990 and raised in Friuli with Colombian and Slovenian grandmothers, Davide Degano is a visual artist who explores how images construct memory, identity, and culture. His multidisciplinary practice examines the tension between visibility and erasure and approaches borderlands as spaces of both fracture and belonging, while questioning the legacies of the past and their impact on the present.