Every journey has its origin, its starting point, that moment of introspection and deep inquiry. This is the beginning of my path, of my family and territorial history. My father, Luigi Calabrino, born in Ischia, Naples, Italy, and my mother, Giovanna Chillemi, born in Lentini, Sicily, Italy, arrived in Argentina in the 1950s. They escaped the poverty caused by World War II and settled in Mar del Plata.

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I intend to explore migration and the relationship with territory as a place of emotional and human connection. Mar del Plata was the destination for many immigrants from Ischia and Sicily who settled in the port area, in "Little Italy." My family's history unfolds in this context. With this project, I wish to delve into my identity, family ancestry, and female artisanal traditions, understanding that the individual bears a mark of its time, transcending into collective history. This visual arts project crosses the historical-territorial, linking my birthplace in America with those of my ancestors in Europe, creating an aesthetic journey from map to territory, from the present to the roots.

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I seek to develop a personal grammar composed of elements such as family and contemporary photographic archives, letters and maps, dialogues with distant relatives, cultures, landscapes, languages, dialects, and countless tangible and intangible ancestral encounters. A conceptual narrative through the reinterpretation of images, proposing a metareading of the work.