Return : to come back to a place or to a person. For someone who has been living abroad for a long time, the word  “return” carries a lot of ambiguities, as it does the idea of « home ». In the journeys back and forth from the home/land to the country of residence, of every day life, to the new home, the meanings, memories and feelings attached to them blur and intertwine. Turn comes from Latin tornus "lathe" from Greek tornos "lathe, tool for drawing circles." A movement in circles, a journey without a unique destination, cyclical, repetitive, similar yet different every time. The familiar faces,  gestures and places that inhabit our chilhood memories are similar, yet different every time. The person making the journey is also similar, yet different every time.

Re/Turn is a collection of images taken by Patricia Morosan, now living in Berlin, during her travels to her native Romania, back to her parents and the place where she was born. Her photographs are partial, subjective, fragmentary, following the ungovernable and disjointed rhythm of experiences and souvenirs. If memory is also a matter of the body, of the senses, following the constant movement of time, so are Patricia's photographs: they are textural, tactile, reintroducing duration, affect, contingency to the surface of the image. Her embodied vision suggests intimacy, bringing us to the sphere of relation, of contact, of images that adhere and eyes that touch. Yet, instead of affirming the physical presence, these images seem to prefigure a disappearance, an imminent and inevitable absence. There is something evanescent, spectral, in these bodies and places. Maybe we are just allowed to feel these encounters and memories with our fingertips, to for a brief instant, before they start fading away. Further and further away on the river or up the hill, frame after frame, image after image. While waiting to return, again.

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Rachele Ceccarelli