The Art of Mourning

November 12 and 13th, 2026, 15:00 – 18:30 daily

This is the inaugural conference of Il Salotto della Memoria at the Fondazione Maddalena Di Giacomo,
Venice, Italy

“Set within Palazzo Valier in Venice, the conference brings together an exceptional group of speakers whose work moves across psychoanalysis, mourning jewellery, inheritance, photography, anthropology, and material culture. Over two afternoons, The Art of Mourning will open a rich and intimate reflection on grief,  not only as a private wound, but as something shaped through objects, gestures, rituals, and acts of remembrance.

Rather than approaching mourning as a single subject, the conference unfolds as a constellation of perspectives: from the inner psychological labour of grief, to the symbolic language of jewellery, from the afterlife of personal belongings to the role of photography, hair, and material traces in preserving emotional presence across time.”

Please visit the Fondazione event page for more info
and to RSVP:
https://www.fondazionemaddalenadigiacomo.org/exhibitions/the-art-of-mourning#details