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The result is a work that feels excavated as much as constructed, as if the image has been uncovered rather than assembled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncompiuto is among Di Grado's most formally ambitious works, combining the intimate archival sensibility of his collage practice with a scale and physicality that commands the wall. The title resonates outward — toward childhood, toward history, toward the unresolved conditions that shape identity in Sicily and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDemetrio Di Grado is a Caltagirone-based artist whose collage practice, developed since 2016, draws on the visual language of the mid-twentieth century to interrogate identity, memory, and the layered nature of the image. 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