The Project THERAPY will be part of the Rotterdam Photo Fair XL 2022 from May 18th - 22nd.
Willemsplein 85 - 3016 DR Rotterdam
OPENING HOURS:
Wednesday: 6.30 PM - 9 PM
Thursday: 11 AM - 8 PM
Friday: 11 AM - 8 PM
Saturday: 10 AM - 8 PM
Sunday: 12 AM - 6 PM
About Rotterdam Photo
Rotterdam Photo is an annual photo fair with a festival flair. The event celebrates the spectrum of contemporary photography in all its diversity.
Being part of the Rotterdam Art Week, the event yearly attracts around 10.000 visitors, among whom art lovers, collectors, gallerists, as well as international art press professionals from different parts of the globe.
About the Project THERAPY
Tommaso Sacconi is a photographer and a collector. Ever since he can remember, he has been collecting everything, particularly his own things as a sort of memorial. Saving every single object is for him the first step of a possible collection: notebooks, cans, stuffed animals, receipts, batteries, or parts of himself like teeth, hair, and nails, just to mention some of them.
It started with him collecting memories and things that he was emotionally attached to, and it developed into an obsession to pile up ordinary objects in series.
The only complication he has is the space. Collecting requires a lot of physical and mental space, which led him to find ways to let things go. Tommaso has realized that, to be able to throw anything away, he first needs to celebrate the detachment by taking pictures of it. The composition is the result of the entire process, the image is the purpose to achieve. By then, he convinces himself that what he has collected will somehow survive, especially using films as they don’t leave him empty-handed. The project “Therapy” is photography used as a remedy to his addiction.