A brand new work by Italian expatriate Angela Viora, The PR.omised Land is a philosophical provocation on mapping the physique’s motion by way of area and journey, and canvasses what it means for id and tradition when an individual emigrates.
A body-based efficiency artist, Viora has collaborated with the Museo Italiano and Co-As-It in Melbourne’s historic residence of the Italian group, to ship a sequence of images and a efficiency work concerning the modern wave of Italian-Australian migration.
Gallery-goers can catch a sequence of images displaying how the physique can characterize journey and migration, which work together with the everlasting exhibitions on the Museo Italiano. These images had been taken in a studio by skilled photographer Susi Nodding and are a document of a efficiency paintings that occurred on the eleventh convention of the Australian Centre for Italian Research in Perth in 2022. They’re complemented by interactive drawings of the physique, the place individuals can add to the questions which might be provoked by migration and journey.
The PR.omised Land is a thought-provoking work that explores the predicaments of New Italians as the newest wave of Italian migrants to Australia, and the way these migrants contribute to the material of society. However the exhibition has broad attraction to anybody attempting to grasp the wealthy tapestry of tradition that defines our multicultural society.
A viewer to the exhibition might discover themselves asking the identical questions, notably: how will we occupy the various geographical, social, political and emotional areas during which we exist? Which roles to we carry out in these locations? And after we carry out these roles who – and what – are we?
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Viora, a lecturer in Italian research at Monash College, has beforehand carried out on the Istanbul Biennial and the MAXXI Museum in Rome, in addition to in Australian venues together with The Massive Anxiousness pageant at RMIT and the CLIMARTE Gallery. This exhibition is certain to excite anybody with a wanderlust and can encourage reflections on id and goals of journey.
The PR.omised Land is displayed at Museo Italiano, part of Co.As.It, which supplies companies to Italian migrants. This free exhibition is working till 26 April 2024.