“The research is focused on a phenomenon taking place in the heart of the city, in the park. Foreign immigrants in Milan on holidays: the park as an agora of migratory travel. They are mainly peoples from Eastern Europe, and predominantly women. Whereas on holidays Italians stay at home with Sunday tables with their relatives, they are homeless, without anything, and celebrate this small holiday outdoors in the park, in the centre of Milan, so they can eat together. They are in a way “homeless” people, and have to find a public place, a place in Milan where they can stay outside together. The project will consist of photographic works and a video. It is not so much a question of rendering the object as it is rendering the relationship, the emotion it awakens in me as, for example, I watch them dancing in the park. An odd feeling of social isolation. In some way I photograph the “cultural countertransfer”: what this search for companionship, rediscovery of language, food, music, dancing, etc. kindles in me. Mysteries: groups that do not come together, that stay apart, almost all young people – never elderly – very well-groomed, they wear their Sunday best and despite everyone says, “We are here because we are poor,” without a home – dwellers in someone else’s house. The park as shared, boundless social space. They stay here until late at night even in December. Mute – not arranged – discovery in which the future is inscrutable.”
(Marina Ballo Charmet)

 

Informations:
Chiostri di San Domenico
Via Dante Alighieri 11 – Reggio Emilia
Tel. 0522.451722

Time
From April 27th thru May 5th
h. 10-23
From May 6th thru May 10th
Tuesday - Friday h. 18-23
Saturday and Sunday h. 10-23

Tickets
Entrance ticket to all exhibitions 10€
Reduced 7€  (Students, TCI, CTS, AIB, Carta Giovani of Reggio Emilia Towm Council members, over 65 and visitors of the Palazzo Magnani exhibition)
Free for all children until 12, schools, disabled people and their guide, accredited journalists and ICOM membersDietro la presentazione del biglietto di ingresso alle mostre di Fotografia europea - Reggio Emilia 2007

 

 

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