Gone & Leaving
Dublin Core
Title
Gone & Leaving
2145.PER.CERULLO
Subject
Diaristic
Description
Gone & Leaving is a handmade photobook developed from a period of instability, shaped by isolation, co-dependency, and the gradual loss of self.
The work emerged through urgency rather than planning, an instinctive, almost automatic process of trying to keep up with life. Photographs, handwritten notes, and collected fragments accumulate throughout the book, forming a loose archive of moments that resist being neatly organised.
Traces of that time remain embedded in the work: diary entries, found materials, gestures of excess, alongside moments of intimacy and care. After a prolonged sense of invisibility, friendship appears as something grounding, a way of being seen again.
The book moves between breakdown and rebuilding. Its structure is non-linear, folding forward and backward so that beginning and end collapse into each other, mirroring how memory loops rather than progresses.
Originally conceived as a large-scale accordion installation, the project was later transformed into an intimate, handheld object. The reader is required to unfold, lift, and navigate its layers, encountering images and fragments that are at times fully exposed, others hidden.
At its core, Gone & Leaving exists in an in-between state, holding the tension between leaving and becoming, without fully resolving either.
The work emerged through urgency rather than planning, an instinctive, almost automatic process of trying to keep up with life. Photographs, handwritten notes, and collected fragments accumulate throughout the book, forming a loose archive of moments that resist being neatly organised.
Traces of that time remain embedded in the work: diary entries, found materials, gestures of excess, alongside moments of intimacy and care. After a prolonged sense of invisibility, friendship appears as something grounding, a way of being seen again.
The book moves between breakdown and rebuilding. Its structure is non-linear, folding forward and backward so that beginning and end collapse into each other, mirroring how memory loops rather than progresses.
Originally conceived as a large-scale accordion installation, the project was later transformed into an intimate, handheld object. The reader is required to unfold, lift, and navigate its layers, encountering images and fragments that are at times fully exposed, others hidden.
At its core, Gone & Leaving exists in an in-between state, holding the tension between leaving and becoming, without fully resolving either.
Creator
Agostina Cerullo
Publisher
Agostina Cerullo
Date
2025
Format
Printed at TecnoArt, Barcelona. Paper Old Mill Ivory 190 gsm.
Covers printed in serigraphy at Suburbia, Barcelona.
Hand-bound with Luz Cubas.
Covers printed in serigraphy at Suburbia, Barcelona.
Hand-bound with Luz Cubas.
Book Item Type Metadata
Dimensions
14.8 x 21.0 cm
Number of Pages
54
Number of images
39
Edition Size
Limited Edition of 100
Place of Publication
New York
Designer
Agostina Cerullo
Editor
Agostina Cerullo
Website
www.agostinacerullo.com
URL Link to project
https://agostinacerullo.com/gone-leaving
Where to buy
Available directly through the artist, and stocked at BookArtBookShop and Village Books
Collection
Citation
Agostina Cerullo, “Gone & Leaving,” Photobook Cafe Photobook Collection, accessed April 20, 2026, https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/items/show/2145.