Desire, in its most authentic form, is the ultimate confirmation of presence: as long as we desire, we are alive. It is what moves us, defines us, and connects us to the world. Yet, this affirmative energy coexists with its opposite impulse: the need to withdraw, to disappear, to remain unseen.
The work originates from a personal process: the difficulty of exposing myself. Faced with the discomfort of self-representation, I chose to overturn the perspective, transforming that space into a relational device.
Instead of showing myself, I decided to show others.
LET ME KNOW takes shape as an ongoing archive of individual desires and pleasures, a collection of lists written by different people, invited to share what they love to do, what attracts them, what keeps them alive. People I love, people I once loved, and strangers online.
Through these intimate and everyday declarations, the project explores desire as a language of existence, but also as a form of resistance against disappearance.
The act of not exposing myself thus becomes a conceptual gesture: a conscious vanishing that opens space for listening and for the presence of others.
Within this tension between visibility and absence, desire reveals itself as a continuous movement, and the archive as a collective organism that grows over time, bearing witness to the vitality of those who choose to desire.