Gian Marco Casini Gallery, Livorno
Margherita Moscardini
In February 2011 in the Syrian city of Dar’a, five children wrote some words on a wall.
They could not know that their graffiti would have turn forever the future of their country, their people and Europe.
When, after four years, the new people of diaspora marched towards Europe, for the first time since the Schengen agreements, Europe was divided between countries ready to receive the newcomers and countries that began to defend their borders by building new walls. Then, with the Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom separated from the European Union, whose nation-states missed the opportunity to question the very principle of the inscription of nativity as well as the trinity of state-nation-territory that is founded on that principle.
For Art-o-rama, Gian Marco Casini presents three works by Margherita Moscardini. A reproduction of the inscription on the wall of Dar’a made in fired sand; a video where people first wear the individual signs of the inscription as jewelry, and then these are placed on the map of Europe; and two photos taken by the artist in Madaba, Jordan in 2018.
This project by Moscardini can be well described with the words of Giorgio Agamben: “we could conceive of Europe not as an impossible “Europe of the nations,” whose catastrophe one can already foresee in the short run, but rather as an aterritorial or extraterritorial space in which all the (citizen and noncitizen) residents of the European states would be in a position of exodus or refuge.”
