Created over 10 years, “Oyster” is a visual diary realized by Marzocchi in an attempt to understand his troubled family history marked by an absent father and mother.
The images collected, at times rough and violent, tell his hunting for a “cause” for all the suffering and lacks of the past; and show his need to orientate in a story marked by a dysfunctional childish environment.
Combining archival images and his own shots, the author revisits the past to create a path of emancipation and reconciliation with his own biography.
Marzocchi re-read his entire family history according to the adult point of view, closing in that way a circle. Not by chance, actually, this project frequently evokes the figure of the Ouroboros, a symbolic image that recounts a path of evolution and rebirth, or the closing of a circle.
Each book connects to each other; there are 480 diferent covers and each snake is the cover of a book and the back cover of the next one, transforming the 480 books into a singular piece.
“Oyster” is a 84-page book by Leporello, this module allows the reader to have a free and non-linear reading of the publication. It allows a circular reading. Once again, an Ouroboros.