It feels like crossing the threshold of an aquarium, yet the installation that the artist Adrian Paci has conceived for the agorà space at the Museum of Cultures is anything but devoted to amniotic anesthetization. The reference is to the sea, that terrible sea that swallows human lives and silently preserves the tragedy of thousands of people that were going towards hope.
An installation that is a mosaic composed from clippings from Italian and international newspapers, a personal archive of the tragedies that strike those who seek emancipation through exile. Paci chooses not to show the disaster, he selects the detail. The cuts made isolate a poetic detail from a dramatic image and return the rough and grainy rendering of the printed paper out of scale. The intervention is a preview of the exhibition entitled Travelogue. Stories of travel, migrations and diasporas that the artist will inaugurate at the Mudec next March.
