Claudia Virginia Vitari
IDENTITÁ INTERSTIZIALI

Description

The volume documents the personal exhibition of the artist Claudia Virginia Vitari at the Widespread Museum of Resistance, Deportation, War, Rights and Freedom in Turin. Since 2014 the artist has been dealing with migration, refugees and asylum seekers. The installation on display combines two themes of his most recent project: “Interstitial Identities”. Claudia Virginia Vitari has always focused her work on long research and collaboration projects on social issues such as crime and detention, subjects diagnosed with mental illness and refugees and asylum seekers. The large installations created are accompanied by drawings and serigraphs that illustrate in detail some of the stories that make up the artistic project. The Interstitial Identity work proposes a comparison between two distinct but related “interstitial experiences”: protest and waiting. The “Interstitial Identities” project by Claudia Virginia Vitari represents the most recent stage of an artistic and theoretical research, now ten years old, focused on the relationship between identity and cultural otherness, narratives of inclusion / exclusion, total institutions, discipline of bodies and production of humanity and inhumanity. The artist has always focused his attention on social issues that have to do with “marginality”, discomfort and the forms of normalization and discipline carried out by the institutions, giving life to long research and experimentation projects on materials and languages in the name of a broad relational and participatory approach. These are assumptions that have pushed it over time to relate to subjects with psychiatric diagnoses, prisoners, refugees and asylum seekers. (from the critical essay by Roberto Mastroianni)