What happens when art meet history and sorrow? Gabriella Sperotto use calligraphy, design and bookbinding to show emotions. Her work became the protagonist of a documentary by RSI (Swiss Television).
Thanks to the involvement of people belonging to three different generations, the documentary tells about Mattmark’s tragedy, in Switzerland. 50 years ago an avalanche of ice, snow and rocks fell from Allalin glacier to the dam construction site, leding to death 88 people.
In this short film Gabriella's art acts as the fil rouge connecting emotions, testimonies, memories. She worked on paper, on the snow and mixing ice with ink.
But the power of this project sits definetely in the idea of collecting and giving shape to the emotions of several people in a single and unique piece of art, a fragile piece of paper which is able to carry such a heavy burden and to make it literally bloom, even in the snow and the ice.