Stazione climatica

2019 | Castelluccio di Porretta
site-specific installation
cardboards and thread

“Toy mines, designed to maim children. I had to believe it, even if I still have difficulty understanding it”
Gino Strada, Green Parrots. A war surgeon’s diary

During the art residency Stazione Climatica, organized by Checkpoint Charly and host by Associazione Castello Manservisi, I chose to create a site-specific installation in the Elementary Class of the LabOrantes museum, after discovering the Ammunition Box: a way for teachers to show their students what to stay away from during the post-war period. This represented the starting point of my work, in which I’ve created a correlation between kids’ realities in a local (as the museum is in my region) conflict during a different historical period and in nowadays conflicts around the world. 

The 644 paper parrots that the public had to cross to enter the Elementary Class symbolize the story of Sadako Sasaki, hospitalized in Hiroshima ten years after the bomb was dropped. She was told a local legend according to which creating 1000 origami cranes was believed to grant the folder a wish. She was able to complete only 644, the rest were made by her friends, to bury them all with her. The cranes are here replaced by colorful paper parrots, emblems of the perverse logic of war for which children are considered future enemies and therefore they must be annihilated.

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Check the whole project here.