Lauched in 2024 The Lost & Found Collection is an on-going project and a physical and online archive of lost anonomous images.
Conceptualized as an exercise for rethinking the space of lost media, the project seeks not only to preserve its archive, but to activate it. The collection — composed of slides, photographs, and personal images of both known and unknown origins — serves as a living source of inspiration, research, and exchange that should be allowed to echo beyond its shelves, resonating through new artistic practices, conversations, and interpretations.
Through workshops, research, screenings, and archiving sessions, the project creates spaces for exchange and reflection. Through multi-modal elements, the Collection creates a space where overlooked histories and experimental practices can be explored, (re)contextualised, and shared, thus encouraging dialogue between archival research, contemporary filmmaking, and public engagement.
Films and workshops featuring the archive have been selected and presented in festivals and symposiums in South America, Asia and Europe. In this way, Lost & Found aspires, beyond archive, to be an ecosystem: a dynamic, responsive environment where found images continue to reverberate, inspiring new connections between past and present, and allowing forgotten fragments to find new life through the eyes of the contemporary.