works / 2018
terra cruda
- year
- 2018
- format
- clay workshops, variable number of participants
- with
- Annalisa Zegna, Hydro, Better Places APS, Associazione Pacefuturo Onlus
Terra Cruda (Raw Earth) is a series of unfired clay workshops and social gatherings with migrant people and asylum seekers, in which the clay gives temporary shape to shared memories and imaginaries.
Conceived with Annalisa Zegna and two organisations in Biella, Associazione Pacefuturo Onlus and Better Places APS, the project is a space of research in which participants take time to learn a craft and, at the same time, talk about the complex issues of forced migration and precariousness. Flexible and malleable, clay becomes the support of an introspective and interpersonal dialogue, where the impressed forms are the work of mind, memory and hands.
The images that take shape are like ghosts emerging from the material: lived experiences, objects seen and used, elements of cultures in transformation that migrate and resist. Boats, flags, traditional huts, fireplaces, mortars, bowls, plates, vases, masks and anthropomorphic figures, animals of every kind, work tools, gym equipment, phones. The clay is never fired: only photographs of the objects remain, and the work is the process itself.
