Gone & Leaving began as something much larger, a 13-meter-long accordion object that unfolded across tables and floors, somewhere between a book, an installation, and an emotional map. It was built during a time of rupture, frantically collecting fragments of images, thoughts, and emotional residue, searching for form through chaos in a raw and instinctive way.

Over time, the project shifted and condensed, what once occupied the length of a room is now held between two hands.

A year and a half later, it has become what it is today: a small, intimate book. Still accordion-made, still layered and unstable, like memory itself.

The book moves like a film strip: frame by frame, it carries photographs, scans, journal pages, and marks of absence. Its black surfaces absorb and reflect, evoking the cinematic, the intimate, the remembered.

At its core, Gone & Leaving is a book about departures, from places, people, and pieces of identity. It asks: What remains? What unfolds when everything familiar dissolves?

Each of the 100 signed copies is hand-bound, with unique variations and handmade additions. No two are exactly the same.

A book to sit with, to return to, to quietly feel your way through.

To celebrate the launch, there will also be a solo exhibition curated by Anna Leyko, where I’ll be showing a 35mm film slide projection titled In Between Loss and Whatever Comes After. It brings together unseen parts of the project I’ve been working on since late 2023.

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Agostina Cerullo is an Argentinian visual artist and photographer whose work often grows out of movement and change. Having lived between places, she has developed a sensitivity to leaving, adapting, and holding onto memory.

Her practice shifts between photography, installation, moving image, and experimental bookmaking, often touching on themes of grief, identity, and transformation. She works in a hands-on way, using layered images, handmade forms, and personal fragments to explore how feelings can take shape.

She began as a self-taught photographer before continuing her studies at the University of the Arts London and the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Her projects often sit somewhere between archive and sculpture, mixing personal traces with open-ended storytelling. At the core is a search for connection, for ways of making sense of movement and change through shared experience.