The Fragmentation Project
The Architecture of Oblivion "In The Fragmentation Project, Furio Torracchi explores the visual entropy of memory. Through a controlled geometric decomposition, the artist mimics the natural process of mnemonic degradation: as time passes, the sharp details of reality fade, giving way to chromatic syntheses and abstract fragments.
The photograph is dissected into modules that no longer represent the object itself, but its residual persistence in the mind. In this transition from the figurative to geometric abstraction, the work becomes a map of the 'no longer visible,' where the expanded pixel serves as a unit of measurement for forgetfulness. To decompose the image is, therefore, to make tangible the erosion of time on our perception."
"Remember me "
Size : 126x100 cm
"At a party long time ago"
Size : 120x120 cm
Medium : Photography
Medium : Photography
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Forgotten stories"
Size : 150x150 cm
"Old Games"
Size : 140x105 cm
Medium : Photography
Medium : Photography
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"Convivenza...Londra 2003"
Size : 110x150 cm
Medium : Photography
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"Around USA "
Size : 130x130 cm
"Bavarian trip"
Size : 150x85 cm
Medium : Photography
Medium : Photography
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"A summer on the motorway "
Size : 150x115 cm
"New suburbs"
Size : 150x150 cm
Medium : Photography
Medium : Photography
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"LA.... some time ago"
Size : 150x82 cm
Medium : Photography
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About the work
The Fragmentation Project is a sustained investigation into the visual structure of memory — specifically, into what an image becomes when time begins to work against it.
The starting point is always a photograph: a moment of domestic life, a gathering, a journey, a place. What follows is a process of controlled geometric decomposition in which the image is broken into modular units — expanded pixels that dissolve the photograph's descriptive surface into fields of colour and form. The result is neither abstraction nor representation, but something between the two: an image that retains the emotional signature of the original scene while surrendering its legibility.
The works in this series — Remember Me, At a Party Long Time Ago, Convivenza...Londra 2003, Around USA, LA...Some Time Ago — are rooted in personal experience and specific biographical moments. But the fragmentation process universalises them. A party in London in 2003, a road trip across America, a summer on a Bavarian motorway: stripped of their particular details, these become images of memory itself — of the way experience persists not as a clear record but as a residue of colour, light, and emotional temperature.
The expanded pixel is the key formal element of this work. It functions simultaneously as a unit of decomposition and a unit of reconstruction — breaking the image apart while proposing a new visual order in its place. What emerges is what Torracchi has called a map of the no longer visible: the territory of things that happened, that were felt, and that time has begun — but not yet completed — the work of erasing.