Palacinche brings for the first time to Italian audience the result of the collaboration between comic author Alessando Tota and photographer Caterina Sansone, to be published by Fandango Libri/Coconino Press on the occasion of Bilbolbul Festival.  Through a mix of drawings and photographic images, the project tells Caterina’s mother story, Istrian expatriate sheltered as a refugee in Italy after Fiume's annexation to Ex-Yugoslavia. In 2009 the artists went backwards her path from central Italy to Rijeka (Fiume), Croatia - last stop of their trip - to rediscover the places used as refugee camps during war period. The aim of the project is to reassert the importance of historic memory, offering this way a living proof of the experience of being different through History.

Alessandro Tota was born in Bari in 1982, and moves to Paris in 2006. He is one of the founding members of Canicola project. His works appear in renowned magazines, such as “Internazionale”, “Repubblica XL”, “Lo Straniero”, “Lapin”, “Orang”, “Stripburger”, “Kultur & Gespenster”, “Black”, “Papier Gachè”. In 2009 he publishes in France Terre d’accueil, translated and published in Italy by Coconino Press/Fandango Libri with the title Yeti (winner of “Miglior Opera Prima” and “Premio della Critica” prizes at Romics, and “Miglior Libro a Fumetti Italiano 2010” prize at Treviso Comic Book Festival). His drawings were shown in various collective exhibitions in Italy, France, Germany and Finland.

Caterina Sansone, born in Florence in 1981, graduates in Communication Studies in Bologna with a monographic essay about Francesca Woodman. She moves to Paris in 2006 and has been living and working there ever since. After an experience at Magnum Photos Agency digital department in Paris, and after having worked as assistant for Ilse Frech, she now works as a photographer and assistant of various international photographers, such as Abbas, Patrich Zachmann (Magnum Photos), and Italian Giampiero Assumma. Her images appeared in “Animals”, “Grazia”, “Cosmopolitan”, and she has had exhibition in Follonica, Bologna, Paris, Vigneux-sur-Seine. She is currently following a photographic project with the students of a Parisian school of applied arts, in which she was welcomed as resident artist.