The LOST COLLECTION ( 2006-2014 )
"I have collected, catalogued and photographed lost objects since 2006, primarily in New York City and Jersey City, NJ where I lived until 2016. My collection is composed of more than a thousand gloves, hats, pacifiers, combs, stuffed animals, scarves, baby shoes, condoms, sunglasses... The exhibit immerses the viewer in a sea of these objects and displays a selection of 5x7 photographs that reveals the place/moment when I found them."
The installation work is an intimate portrait of humanness. We all loose in the same way in the same places. It brings us together. The objects offesr evidence of life in a frenetic, urban environment. At the same time each object projects a ghostly energy, drawing the viewer to empathize with the looser, conjuring faces, places and moments in time. The Lost Collection is both a particular anthropological point of view of place, of “the state of the city”, and a poetic ode to a cast of absent people who share our modern life.
The Huffington Post: Quattrocchi documents where and when she found each item, transforming a piece of garbage into a mysterious memento, a precious symbol of something...
The installation work is an intimate portrait of humanness. We all loose in the same way in the same places. It brings us together. The objects offesr evidence of life in a frenetic, urban environment. At the same time each object projects a ghostly energy, drawing the viewer to empathize with the looser, conjuring faces, places and moments in time. The Lost Collection is both a particular anthropological point of view of place, of “the state of the city”, and a poetic ode to a cast of absent people who share our modern life.
The Huffington Post: Quattrocchi documents where and when she found each item, transforming a piece of garbage into a mysterious memento, a precious symbol of something...
