Is it important to remember everything that happens? In what way does
news become History? What happens if one distances an image from the facts that
it should describe? These are only some of the many questions that emerge when
one looks at Them (Loro), created in 2010 by Elisabetta
Benassi. The work, a group of watercolors on canvas, is part of a broader
research project that emerged from investigations the artist carried out
beginning in 2008. That year, while she found herself in the United States
during the presidential elections and at the height of the economic crisis,
Benassi began to assiduously visit libraries and archives for the major
newspapers, focusing her research on images published by the press over the
course of the twentieth century. [...]
