BRESCIA.- In this series of photographs entitled In Memoriam, Stefania Beretta (b. in Vacallo, Switzerland, in 1957) from Ticino has devoted herself to regions in Italy, France and Ticino that have been devastated by forest fires. An exhibition showing this group of works has already been presented, in 2009, at the Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano, which provided an opportunity for a first presentation in Brescia. The photographer approaches her subject matter from a Conceptual angle. Each group of works has been meticulously prepared in preliminary studies and in on-site ‘field research’. Only then are ‘portrayals’ of selected places and motifs printed in a 120 x 120 format, occasionally in pairs forming a diptych to reinforce and intensify their impact or they are confronted with, and supplemented by, a monochrome picture field. The author is not concerned with narrative or objective documentation of a specific geographic locality but rather with memor