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COLLECTIVE ART
"Mare Fermo" 2019 - Art Performance @La Nuvola (Roma)
The team is called Save the Youths. They play in the third division in Fermo, in the Marche region, a town of 35,000 inhabitants with a hundred and forty asylum seekers. The African footballers of Save the Youths have crossed the desert, passed through the prisons of Libya, and then made the crossing by sea on a makeshift boat.
Guy Chiappaventi, writer and journalist for La7, tells the story of this precarious team by definition, which is also a story of Italian provincial life in the era of closed ports and resentment towards immigrants, which is vented especially during league matches, from the stands filled with white spectators.
With the author of the book, it was therefore decided to create, during the press conference held at the La Nuvola congress center in Rome, a collective artwork that represented - in contrast to reality - a playing field with stands full of spectators of color and, on the field, the imprints of the players' palms, in bright pink, to emphasize the nonexistent difference in skin color.
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