LAURA FIORIO // Reinventario
Archivo LAB 2025
Limited Print Edition
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LAURA FIORIO
Reinventario (Worker's trip to Venice)
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Inkjet print on 100% Cotton Rag Fine Art Paper
From an edition of 50, numbered on the reverse
Image size: 15 x 27 cm
Paper size: 24 x 30 cm
Unframed
What happens when memory is preserved not by institutions but by those who lived it?
Reinventario is a community-driven archival project developed with former workers of the Bormioli glass factory in Parma, once a major industrial centre, now mostly demolished. As redevelopment erased much of its heritage, a DIY archive emerged, sustained through care and storytelling. Between 2023 and 2025, Laura Fiorio collaborated with the group to digitise their collection, compared it with institutional records, and translated their imagined futures and inspirations into archival interventions. The project led to a photobook that merges inventory with reinvention. Inspired by the visual grammar of the archive, family photographs, technical drawings, and advertising imagery are recontextualised through collage and intervention. The book reflects on the socio-political value of factory life in 20th-century Italy and preserves this affective, collective memory beyond its local context.
