“Presence” by Alessandro Silverj is a conceptually driven photographic series that investigates the enduring visual and emotional legacies of historical violence and persecution, particularly as they intersect with women’s lives and bodies. Through a thoughtful recombination of archival images and personal photographs, Silverj creates evocative visual dialogues that displace histories of patriarchal control from static documentation into a dynamic space of reflection and resonance. The images often employ recurring gestures as symbolic links between generations, prompting questions about how visibility, memory and erasure operate when history has been shaped by systemic forms of violence. Presence explores how narratives of persecution persist in the imagination and challenges viewers to consider how practices of seeing and representation can resist disappearance and invisibility.