The heart of the project lies in the personal autobiographical documents preserved by three different archival institutions (partners of Store the Future) :
National Diary Archive of Pieve Santo Stefano, Italy (project promoter)
The State Archives in Pazin, Croatia
Arquivo dos Diários, Lisbon, Portugal
Three archives that interact, share good techniques and develop innovative methodologies for archival research aimed at producing original artistic works.
Everything starts from “simple” handwritten texts: letters, diaries or torn pages from a notebook. These texts narrate personal stories, thoughts, reflections on life and much more. The documents are preserved in archives by those who, by their vocation, try to keep those memories and stories alive so that future generations can continue to preserve and pass them on.
The European archival heritage still has unexplored fields and it is a precious source from which artistic production creators can draw. Store the Future is particularly interested in autobiographical archival documents such as diaries and letters.
More and more often, artistic producers are drawing on these unpublished stories in order to give birth to new original artistic productions. Too often, unfortunately, the subjects are not treated in full compliance with the sensitivity of the sources and their original nature. These mistakes - even if made with the best intentions - lead to a distorted and ambiguous representation of the contents, giving the public wrong information.