There is a precise moment when a person begins to drift beyond reach. It is not death, nor is it yet absence; it is something more subtle and more fierce—a slow slipping away that turns familiar places into labyrinths and time into a formless substance. It is within this suspended space that Cartography of Solitudes resides, the photobook published by Marsilio Arte in which the duo RiseUp—Giovanni Gallio and Sara Capovilla—confronts Alzheimer’s disease through the narrative of a mother.

Featuring texts by Gianmarco Pacione that provide a narrative framework designed to bridge the personal and universal dimensions of the story, the volume documents the progression of the illness through 70 photographs whose visual register gradually shifts: from the saturated colors and sharp clarity of the initial phase, through increasingly fragmented and disorienting compositions, to the dense black of the most acute stage and the final white of complete memory loss. This is neither a clinical account nor a sentimental memoir, but a project that uses photography as a medium to make visible what the disease strips away—memory, identity, and human connection. Each section of the volume represents a threshold: there is no redemption along this path, but rather a formal lucidity that transforms private grief into a shared experience, speaking to anyone who has ever witnessed this illness up close.