work
No-People Boat
| category | Performance |
| subject | Political / Social, Human figure |
| tags | porti chiusi, barcone, persone, migranti, politiche migratorie, accoglienza, human rights, democratic values |
| minutes | 20 |
| seconds | 0 |
| year | 2018 |
When in the summer of 2018 I was selected to participate in the Cartasia-Lucca Biennale, I wondered how to make the message I was trying to communicate more effective: the depersonalization of migrants, their semantic reduction to an undifferentiated blob, functional to the politics of “Closed ports” and, more generally, to the (bad) management of migratory flows. I therefore decided to intervene on a work created in 2017. My pictorial work consisted in extrapolating, oversizing and making matter (cardboard, pigments, manual skills) one of the myriads of digital images that, rightly, tell of the dramas and tragedies of this epochal phenomenon, but which unfortunately also creates a “noise”, a mixing with the mass of undifferentiated communication that bombards us every day. I had to do more, make the message real, then tie it to time, instantly. Hence the choice to reify the concept of depersonalization in progress, with a performative act: the cancellation of all the faces of the migrants on the boat.
