Personal, family and collective memory is the pulsating center of the multiform practice of the artist Diamond Stingily. The memories of her childhood and adolescence, as well as, in a broader sense, of the American subcultures and Black culture, are the starting point of her reworking of (often found) household and ordinary objects, placed in a language which alludes to more extended narratives and meanings. Nothing is only what it appears to be; everything, starting from one’s own materiality, detaches itself from the naturalness of the physical world in order to open autobiographical narrative scenarios or to recall further dimensions: control, violence, surveillance or emotional relationships, beauty, joy. Through sculpture, installation, video, as well as poetry and stories, the artist thus expresses a sober lyricism. The series Elephant Memory, which Stingily launched in 2016, is connected with this peculiar translation process from the material realm to a narrative one: steel chains are woven with artificial hair in always unique and different patterns. Hair, part of Stingily’s family memory, as she grew up in her mother’s hair salon, are a reference to the bonds that formed the artist’s identity.