Biographie
Marco Marzocchi's photography is the search for people, atmospheres and places of the past that mix with the present in order to define it and make sense of it. It is beauty in everyday simplicity and in those small details that hide joy, fear, or pain, elements that combine like in a poem.
An extremely personal and autobiographical story taken at times urgently and sometimes with patient research.
His work alternates impulsiveness and rationality, both in shooting and editing. But nothing is casual. Everything is traced back to a narrative that is both introspective and open to the outside world.
A succession of questions and answers and yet more questions, to give meaning to deep dynamics, to facts from the past, to love, to photography itself.
Marco Marzocchi participated in the Smedsby workshop and a workshop with Jim Goldberg in 2016-2017.He is the winner of the Gomma Grant in 2017 and the Tabo Prize (Fotoleggendo, Rome) in 2018. He has exhibited, among others, at the Copenhagen Photo Festival, the Helsinki Photo Festival, the Athens Photo festival and as part of Temps Zéro at Foto Wien.
Présentation
Created over the course of 10 years, Oyster is an intimate visual diary. With this accumulation of images Marco Marzocchi seeks clues as a means to understanding the destiny of his absent parents. At times nourished by frustration and violence, his images search for the cause of a childhood profoundly disturbed by his environment.
Using archival and original imagery, the artist ransacks his past to build a present in a process of forgiving and letting go, as a search to find love and healing.
"This work represents my experience in recovering and understanding my parents, their life and their relationship towards myself.
I never knew them well because they separated when I was 6 years old, and they both died young.
Drugs, addictions, jail and a dysfunctional environment were the constant elements throughout the whole of this period.
This work was undertaken to overcome the doubts and the fears, to exorcise the pain and the perpetual need to search for love."
Marco Marzocchi
“Children born in troubled families can carry the unfair burdens of shame and guilt. The fear of this personal history being exposed can estrange, the fear of rejection can cripple; experiencing loss seems to make people fear it more than anything. This is why it can be so empowering for people to face this fear and come into the open with their personal histories.”
GUP Magazine