Claudia Auricchio was born in Tuscany in 1998 and grew up in Torre del Greco, in the province of Naples. From an early age she developed a passion for music, studying drums and singing. She attended the Ss. Apostoli Art High School in Naples, specialising in Figurative Arts, while cultivating her passion for using her voice, which led her to undertake professional dubbing and acting courses starting in 2015. In 2017 she enrolled in the First-Level Academic Programme in Graphic Design at RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts in Rome, developing a strong interest in editorial graphics and visual communication related to local and territorial issues. In 2019 she took part in the Erasmus+ project, attending ERG – École de Recherce Graphique in Brussels. She is currently attending the Second-Level Academic Programme in Communication and Design for Publishing at ISIA in Urbino.
Morte manifesta. La narrazione verbo-visiva dell’annuncio funebre murale
“Morte manifesta. La narrazione verbo-visiva dell’annuncio funebre murale” is a thesis project based on the analysis of the phenomenon of wall-mounted funeral announcements. The book is divided into two main chapters: the first is based on a historical investigation of the different writing practices used for the public communication of death; the second focuses on the analysis of wall-mounted funeral posters, with a focus on those produced in the Naples area.
Here, the death notice, often characterised by the presence of the deceased person’s nickname in dialect, becomes a linguistic and socio-anthropological document, synthesising individual lives and making it possible to trace the portrait of an entire community, capturing its sense of dwelling, its rituals and its relationships.
With the aim of documenting and safeguarding this phenomenon, providing an online reference platform for scholars and enthusiasts, the project proposes the creation of a digital collection of funeral posters from the province of Naples, bringing together photographs from various private archives.
