Nari Ward is a Jamaican artist who now lives and works in New York. He is famous throughout the world for his installations made with recycled everyday materials and with a unique history, brought back to new functions. Memory and transformation open up new possibilities. The themes addressed by Nari Ward refer to contemporary urgencies, touching on issues of identity, justice, consumerism and racial issues. Some large-format installations, created between 1996 and 2000 for the choreography Geography Trilogy by Ralph Lemon, and for the first time since then, are exhibited to the public. The three works create a new choreography together with other sculptures, videos, installations and the visitors' bodies themselves. Nari Ward is in fact a performance artist and the exhibition itself is supported by a rich program of live collaborative actions.
The itinerary includes over a hundred photographs from the Ballo+Ballo studio, founded by Aldo Ballo and Marirosa Toscani, some design objects and some original objects belonging to the two photographers, as well as vintage magazines with which the Ballos collaborated and volumes containing their photographs.
An exhibition that retraces some fundamental stages in the history of tattooing, one of the oldest forms of human artistic expression from its thousand-year-old origins to the present day, focusing in particular on the area of the Mediterranean basin.