Rebuilding Amatrice. Representation, Experience and Digital Artifice

The Diocesan Museum of Amatrice, razed to the ground by the 2016 earthquake, exhibited works of sacred art but also materials on the building, the former church of Sant’Emidio, and on the territory. The grave loss provokes a reflection on the psychological significance of heritage, the lack of which creates disorientation among the population. Technologies help to regenerate the bond with the ter-ritory, to search for one’s own identity not only in the tangible dimension, which is hardly visible today, but also in the relationship between objects, stories and meanings to be reconstructed. The research proposes a path of re–appropriation that identifies the semantic domains of the community and associates them in the territory through the dissemination of traces: images and stories are the new points of contact georeferenced around the voice of the protagonists. Two multimedia installations emphasize the evocative interaction between reality, memory and reproduction of the intangible to promote the common good of collective memory.