Self-made traps
There are traps like cages that we create around us, where we are free to enter or leave, which we can bypass, or turn into our comfort zone. The aim of this project is to investigate both the personal space and space negotiations in the relations with others. I am interested in people’s need to create a comfort zone in various situations and settings where we need to interact and relate both to the space we are in and to other people.
A metaphor of capture and containment, the traps embody various scenarios. Therefore they are false traps, anyone is free to come in or out of them, space delimitation is fictitious, role-playings are interwoven, positions constantly revised, to the point where the captured is the capturer, the routes and directions of crossing the space are intuitively chosen.
Self-made traps
There are traps like cages that we create around us, where we are free to enter or leave, which we can bypass, or turn into our comfort zone. The aim of this project is to investigate both the personal space and space negotiations in the relations with others. I am interested in people’s need to create a comfort zone in various situations and settings where we need to interact and relate both to the space we are in and to other people.
A metaphor of capture and containment, the traps embody various scenarios. Therefore they are false traps, anyone is free to come in or out of them, space delimitation is fictitious, role-playings are interwoven, positions constantly revised, to the point where the captured is the capturer, the routes and directions of crossing the space are intuitively chosen.
In between repetition and variation
It is impossible to separate migration from the history of the human being: mobility is a distinctive feature of our species. Since its origins, the human species has been defined by different migratory flows, whether it was to counter tragic realities or to pursue the need for food; seeking freedom, ideals, or pursuing one's dreams; in the conquest of new territories, or simply of a better life. To consider this phenomenon a contemporary problem is to ignore a historical reality. Starting from this premise "In between repetition and variation" is a metaphor of identity, community, territory and memory. Without reference to one or another particular situation, it tells a story that gives a voice to a community.
The variation consists of the difference brought by each individual, by the particularities of each story, by different ways of negotiating, approaching, and adapting new cultures, experiences, and immediate needs, by the reasons, and by the historical moment in which it occurs.
In Between Repetition and Variation is the story of each immigrant.
September 2020, Galleria dell'Accademia di Romania in Roma, Roma
photos by Valentin Morariu
