Tommaso Sacconi
THERAPY
I am a collector. For as long as I can remember, I’ve gathered and preserved things: objects, traces, fragments of daily life. What began as a personal archive of notebooks, cans, toys, receipts, even teeth and hair, eventually revealed something more universal: our shared impulse to hold on to what shapes us, to give form to memory through material things. Cataloguing objects has always been a source of comfort and fascination. It started with items tied to emotion and experience, and gradually expanded into the systematic gathering of ordinary objects, repeating forms that build their own visual rhythm. This instinct to collect reflects a desire for order, continuity, and meaning. Photography became a natural extension of this impulse. By turning objects into images, I create a second layer of memory: a space where the physical and the symbolic meet. Through photography, personal rituals take on a visual form that can be shared beyond their original context. Therapy explores this process. It uses photography not just as documentation, but as a way to understand the emotional structures behind collecting: how we categorize, preserve, and make sense of the world, and of time itself, through the things we choose to keep close.
