MAMMA PERDONAMI
GENNY PETROTTA - 2024
VIDEO INSTALLATION 2024
MUSEO CIVICO CASTELBUONO - Italy
The work by Genny Petrotta [...] tells of a time in which major historical upheavals took place: Towards the end of the Second World War when Sicily had already been liberated but was still occupied by the Americans and many different players were competing for influence over the territory in a geostrategic game. In this context, when many people were starving and faced an uncertain future, a few young people, many of whom had just been discharged from military service, decided to declare an autonomous peasant republic in their home town. In a context of great uncertainty, a Utopia can take hold because "the oppressed become aware of their situation in a more radical way in times of war", as the Brazilian activist Douglas Estevam from the Movimento Sem Terra comments on the historical episode. With her poetic re-enactment, video artist Genny Petrotta intends to preserve her home town's political and cultural heritage to enable people to refer to it in times of crisis.
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