Valeria Cherchi was born in 1986 and is an artist working with images and text. She was born and raised in Sardinia, Italy. Her work over the past years has been themed around the meaning of the ‘unspoken’ within different social issues. She is interested in telling tangible character-driven stories hinted by the need of exploring personal memories and history. In 2018 Valeria was named in British Journal of Photography’s annual ‘Ones to Watch’.
About ‘Some of You Killed Luisa’ – words by Valeria Cherchi:
In “Some of You Killed Luisa”, Valeria Cherchi attempts to decode the complex structure of the kidnapping phenomenon that has crossed her homeland, the Italian island of Sardinia. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, almost 200 people were kidnapped for ransom. Valeria is one of the few artists to deal with this dark chapter of Sardinian history by exploring the parts of the story that appear reliable. After several years of field research, interaction with local communities, digging of media archives and her family’s video archive, she presents a kaleidoscopic story mixing photos, video stills and a log of her research, where memories, sociological and anthropological observations. The outcome of that is a multilayered examination that states the importance of the photographer as a witness of a community bound by the ever-present law of omerta. The photo-text book will be out in May 2020, published by The Eriskay Connection.
