The Volume Number

What do we see first?
The object, or the life it has already lived?

From The Archive, a conversation with exploring memory, collecting, and the stories hidden within the things we choose to keep.

MONUMENTUM.

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From The Life of Objects.
A chapter from MONUMENTUM, the first Hors Série by THE VOLUME NUMBER.

What we keep.
What we carry.
What quietly remains.


I — Lipstick Matte / Lipstick Satin
II — Liquid Lipstick Vinyl / Liquid Lipstick Matte
III — Bibliophilia Eyeshadow Palette / Liquid Lipstick Vinyl
IV — Lip Care
V — Lipstick Matte
VI — Space Black Mascara
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Photography —
Art Direction —
Production & Set Design —

Open Studios begins with observation, memory and the emotional life of objects.

For the first chapter of the series, our Art Curator Giulia Blasig enters the world of Nina Ćeranić through a long-form conversation and visual exploration dedicated to intimacy, fragility and permanence. Sweaters, watches, sofas and domestic fragments become silent witnesses of the lives that once moved through them.

“Oggetti Ospiti / Objects as Guests” reflects on the invisible relationship between people and the objects they preserve, wear, consume and emotionally inhabit over time. A suspended narrative where painting becomes archive, affection and trace.

Discover the complete conversation inside THE VOLUME NUMBER 004 / MONUMENTUM.
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OPEN STUDIOS is an ongoing editorial series exploring artists, archives and contemporary creative practices through interviews, research and visual storytelling.

Curated, written and interviewed by
Featuring
From THE VOLUME NUMBER 004 / MONUMENTUM

An archive is never static. It waits to be reopened, observed again and carried into new contexts through the people who preserve it.

For MONUMENTUM, photographer and stylist entered the world of together with Cristian Murianni
exploring garments, objects and traces of American workwear culture not through nostalgia, but through memory, labour and permanence.

The full conversation and editorial appear inside
THE VOLUME NUMBER 004 / MONUMENTUM.

ARCHIVE OF SMALL THINGS.

Objects survive longer than intentions. Some are carried for years, others forgotten in drawers, pockets, bathrooms, travel bags or old houses. What remains are traces: habits, gestures, fragments of ordinary life quietly resisting disappearance.

An inventory of things once touched, used, kept, misplaced and somehow saved.

Concept, Photography & Archive
THE VOLUME NUMBER 004 / MONUMENTUM.

Objects remain longer than people do.
FRAGMENTS OF A ROOM
THE VOLUME NUMBER 004

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Last night felt special.
Seeing so many of you listening, sharing the space, flipping through the pages and taking your copies home truly meant a lot to us. Thank you to everyone who came, to for hosting us, and to all the people who made the room feel alive.

The energy, the conversations, the attention and enthusiasm around the issue truly meant a lot to us.

See you at the next volume, very soon.
One volume at a time.

MONUMENTUM

Hosted by
at , Milano

A presentation of THE VOLUME NUMBER 004
and a conversation around the issue
and what remains.

06 May
See you 7 pm
Via Giuseppe Sirtori 11

Monumentum.

“What remains, remains for a reason.
This issue explores objects, rituals, traditions and geographies as traces of time.”

ISSUE 004 — HORS-SÉRIE 001

Two covers.
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