Costruzione-Ricostruzione-Ristrutturazione-Riparazione-RevisionePETRA STAVASTF.E.R.V.E.T., acronym of Fabbricazione E Riparazione Vagoni E Tramway, was a factory for the construction of railway wagons founded in Bergamo in 1907. The activity in the Castelfranco Veneto plant began the following year, thanks to work orders related to the repair, overhaul, modernization and transformation of wagons and railway carriages. During the crisis of the 90s, all production was concentrated in the only factory in Castelfranco and, in 2011, after an attempt to consortium with other companies, the F.E.R.V.E.T. was put into liquidation, so the factory of Castelfranco has closed permanently. “In 2016, I started investigating the remains of an extensive archive that had been saved from the factory, sorting out the incomplete material that was scattered about in piles of maps and boxes at different locations, and that contained a wide range of documents, blueprints, drawings and clippings, but mostly photographs. For decades, the archive had been maintained by G. Berdusco, a meticulous archivist who, from what could be seen from the remains of his systems, obviously ran a tight ship. His archive included several intensely detailed and repeatedly updated instructions, written for employees who had no knowledge of cameras, flashes, or photography in general. While instructing them from step one up, the instructions were so detailed that they became incomprehensible, even for trained photographers. This might explain why so many seemingly identical images were taken. With Berdusco in mind, Stavast created a new way of accessing the archive by creating new categories based on selection criteria ranging from factual technical specifications and time-frame aspects to more artistic parallels. In her version of the archive, the appearance and characteristics of the archival material relate to its content and location, a relationship that is both visual and meaningful.” (P.S.) Project realized by invitation and exhibited during OMNEFEST (Torre Civica, 13th October – 9th December 2018) and published in the book “OMNE/WORK 2016-2018”, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2018 
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