The Way Back
Video, 2025
About the artwork
This video is a personal interpretation of nostalgiacore tropes. I have been working with "artificial nostalgia" before: in this case, revisiting the past also shows us how it's not coming back, how it's changed forever. Memories are relics.
AI generated music by Andrea Ciulu
Audio explanation
Listen to Andrea Ciulu discuss this work.
Andrea Ciulu was born in Rome, Italy, in the 1980s. With a background as a writer and visual artist, he has been working in the creative industries for the last twenty years in roles of creative direction.
His artistic work is an ongoing exploration of the limits of memory and of our perception of reality: a research conducted by exploiting technology and its intrinsic limits, by mixing the familiar with the uncanny, nostalgia with bewilderment. Andrea’s work has been exhibited in Rome, San Francisco and Mexico City.