Studio 1. I Miss You So Much!
2023 — Installation, single-channel video
I Miss You So Much! creates a spatial installation where the artist gathers poetry, personal archival objects, and photographs to investigate Turin’s recent industrial history and its migratory movements. The work activates a communal remembrance of Black and working-class life in 1980s Turin. With a poetic focus on transience, Tameu traces her family’s migration journey from Calabria and Cameroon, examining how memories are constructed through both personal and institutional archives.
In her single-channel video work, the artist navigates the currents of memory and imagination, grappling with key historical events and their significance. The displayed photographs and personal objects depict fragments of shattered dreams and urban landscapes tied to her personal and family history, such as the Fiat Mirafiori factory and its surroundings.
Tameu investigates which aspects endure over time and which are discarded, reflecting on the value of memory reproduction and the construction of personal identity through representation. The audience is invited to inspect and physically engage with the exhibited elements, which embody ephemerality, memory, and the archive as interconnected forms of expression.
Solo exhibition, Hoxton Arches, London 2023. Produced and commissioned by SPAZIO GRIOT and the Italian Cultural Institute in London.
Part of the group exhibition Our Rivers Share a Mouth, 18th Young Curators Residency Programme Torino (YCRP), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Curated by Jiayue He, Andria Nyberg Forshage and Aigerim Kapar (May–July 2024).
Credits
Curatorial statement by Johanne Affricot
Photography: Giorgio Andreoni
Italian Cultural Institute, London.
Poems printed on transparent paper, 21 × 15 cm
Photographs on printed paper with frames, 40 × 60 cm
Prints on playing cards
Roller skates, clothes, book
Single-channel video
Courtesy of the artist, SPAZIO GRIOT and the Italian Cultural Institute in London. Archive materials courtesy of Polo del ’00.