work
MIA MADRE HA VENDUTO LA CASA A MOGADISCIO
category | Painting |
subject | Travels, Political / Social, Abstract |
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base | 110 cm |
height | 105 cm |
depth | 5 cm |
year | 2017 |
Series: ‘La Storia Dipinta’
April 18, 2015 - Over seven hundred deaths in the Channel of Sicily. The biggest massacre of immigrants at sea. "My mother sold the house in Mogadishu and paid for my trip 7 thousand dollars, like the others." A large blue, in memory of large spaces. As a metaphor for distances, physical and mental... That orange cork. A house. Barted. For a trip (of hope?)
Mixed media: acrylic, wood and cork.
April 18, 2015 - Over seven hundred deaths in the Channel of Sicily. The biggest massacre of immigrants at sea. "My mother sold the house in Mogadishu and paid for my trip 7 thousand dollars, like the others." A large blue, in memory of large spaces. As a metaphor for distances, physical and mental... That orange cork. A house. Barted. For a trip (of hope?)
Mixed media: acrylic, wood and cork.