Confronting the Archive of Coloniality Across Italy and Libya
Screening of Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film (2022) followed by a conversation between Alessandra Ferrini and Chiara Cartuccia
Tuesday, Octobre 22, 2024, 7pm
Atelier-Assemblée, Triangle-Astérides, Friche le Belle de Mai
Free admission upon registration here
Supported by Italian Council - Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea
As well as Depo Istanbul (TR), L’Art Rue (Tunis, TU), MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, GR)
To mark the launch of Alessandra Ferrini’s first monograph, Triangle-Astérides is hosting a film screening and conversation with the artist.
Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film (2022, duration 59 minutes) is an essay film based on the analysis of real-time news documenting a meeting between Silvio Berlusconi and Muammar Gaddafi in 2009. Through the layering and interplay of text, archival imagery, media footage and amateur documentation, it dissects this event of diplomatic friendship to expose the continuing (neo)colonial relations between Italy and Libya.
Like Swarming Maggots: Confronting the Archive of Coloniality Across Italy and Libya features Ferrini’s long-term research on the colonial and neo-colonial relations between Italy and Libya. Through a critical engagement with the Italian ‘archive of coloniality’ and its structural violence, it brings together documentation of projects reflecting on positionality, censorship, translation, and the erasure of the genocide perpetrated by the Italians in Libya.
Published by Archive Books and commissioned by Villa Romana, the book includes a preface by Bassam El Baroni and contributions by: Tewa Barnosa, Adam Benkato, NiccolòAcram Cappelletto, Chiara Cartuccia, Sarri Elfaitouri, Amalie Elfallah, Khaled Mattawa, Maaza Mengiste, Barbara Spadaro, Daphne Vitali.
Alessandra Ferrini is a visual artist, researcher and educator based in the UK. Questioning the legacies of Italian colonialism and Fascism, her work experiments with the expansion and hybridization of the documentary medium. Winner of the Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2022, she has exhibited internationally, including at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. She holds a PhD from the University of the Arts London.
Chiara Cartuccia is a curator, writer, and researcher. Her long-term research investigates the Mediterranean as an invented/inventive geography, with a focus on practical Mediterraneanism(s) within Euro-Mediterranean contexts. As Visiting Curator UNIDEE (2022/24) at Fondazione Pistoletto, she initiated the project “Neither on Land nor at Sea: Meeting by the Mediterranean Im/Possible.” Cartuccia is co-founder and director of the curatorial and editorial platform EX NUNC.