GLOBAL PASSPORT

Global Passport

Global passport is a project born in June 2014.

The idea was in my mind for long time. Coming from Italy means you have been seen people coming to your country with the hope of having a new and better life and knowing that what they actually find is difficulties.

Now I live in South Africa and I can feel on my own skin what living in another country means, especially when you must deal with permits.

The concept of emigration/immigration itself is something I do not agree with. It comes from the fact that countries are a closed space and you must ask “permesso” “please can I come in?” and pay for that and pay again if you decide to stay.

Out society made flying from one place to the other something cheap and easy under the motto of “being free to move”. And I feel this is one of the thousands of lies about freedom and about being in one global world. The flights are cheap to improve tourism and this is again another thing that does not concern the concept of “knowing another country better” but again is about money.

This are some of the reasons that brought me to think about a global passport as a passport that allows you to go everywhere you want without having to ask for a visa. The book is divided into 18 pages- illustrations that symbolize countries or groups of countries. The illustrations do not include symbols of religions but especially politics. I consider to include just animals, people and object that I though they would illustrate the countries.

This is one of my dreams for our future world and I made it true using my art and trying with that to make other people thinking about it.

moleskine japan book, ink

Intimate objects - creepy combinations

Finally some new drawings, working from Cape Town 2014.

 

cape liner paper, acrylic paint, graphite pencils

3600 a day
Infacting the city 2014
Collaboration with Asanda Kaka

3600 a day is the number of women victims of violence everyday in South Africa.
The project presented 360 crosses wearing 360 dresses, donated and rented from Wendy's shop in Observatory, to symbolize and give attention to the 3600 everyday victims.

Kalahari Catalyst

Kalahari Catalyst is the project I am working hard for since 2012, in collaboration with

Valentina Mandirola (IT), Raw Tella (IT), Shallom Johnson (CAN), Liliana Transplanter (SA), Sun (SA), Juma Mkwela (ZIM), Willard Kambeva (Zim).

Our group aims to keep visiting the communities of Andriesvale and Utikoms in the Kalahari Desert, to build a strong relation with them and help them realize their dreams for their communities.
The intention of the group is not just bringing technologies from the outside, but be a catalyst for the community. For us a Catalyst is "Person, thing or idea that inspires or creates change".

It took us one year of projecting and fundraising trough Art Auctions in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Torino, and trough one crowd-funding campaign, to be able to go in the Kalahari for our first visit.

This was an amazing experience and we manage to have meetings with the community trough our own methodology that includes the creation of a space of dialog collecting important information, sharing our time and using art as a tool of communication.

If you would like to learn more about Kalahari Catalyst Project follow us on

www.kalaharicatalyst.com
www.facebook.com/KalahariCatalyst

Art Residency "Mitologie Urbane", Pesaro 2012

Mitologie Urbane is the project I was invited durin October 2012. It took place in the Fondazione Pescharia, Visual Art Centre Contemporary Art Museum, Pesaro, Italy.

Invited by Paolo Paggi, Giacomo Cardoni.

My personal project was called S-Macherando Pesaro and it was structured trough a series of workshop  involving some classes of the Mengaron Art High School. It was dedicated on putting the attention on various sites of the city, the ones they were important for the participants and then through a series of workshops trying to transform those places in masks of the places itself. Together with the students creating those masks we made symbolic masks, object charged with our view of the city and with our energy and our thoughts.

Her you can see pictures of the work in progress and the finished objects.

Durin the residency I had the honour to collaborate with Lyncoln Diniz, Masako Matsushita, Irina Vainio, for a series of laboratories for kids, disabled and youth.

Flyer of "Pirati de Papel", kids laboratorys in the museum.