It starts February 7 the first artistic residency of The Last Lamentation , by Valentina Medda, created thanks to the support of the Italian Council (XI edition, 2022). The project will be presented at a public meeting on February 9th at 6.00pm at the Man Museum in Nuoro. The artist will speak, Chiara Gatti, director of the Man Museum in Nuoro, Maria Paola Zedda, curator of the project, Giulia Muroni, curator of Sardegna Teatro .
Winner of the placing it at the center of contemporary reflection.
The work, edited by Maria Paola Zedda, is structured around the question of migrations and diasporas from the South of the world which see the Mediterranean transformed into a place of waiting, suspension, passing, into a solid space of embodiment of absence. The sea becoming a body is realized through the staging of a ritual inspired by the funeral cries of the Mediterranean basin, a theme on which the artist began researching during a residency in Beirut.
Crossroads of current diasporas, the sea is here conceived as a place of reception and storage of bodies and also as a body in itself that weaves and documents ancient and contemporary funeral laments through the choral reconstruction of a rite carried out with the involvement of local and migrant women .
The project is carried out by an international partnership that links ZEIT (leader), MAN Museum of Nuoro, Teatro di Sardegna, Arts Center 404 /VierNulVier (Ghent, BE), Flux Factory (NYC),
It will be created with the collaboration of the Sardegna Film Commission Foundation, supported by ARS – Arte Condivisa in Sardegna for the Sardinia Foundation (project sponsor).
Acquired by the MAMbo Museum in Bologna, the artist’s city of residence, the work will be promoted through presentations and exhibitions at Arts Center 404 / VierNulVier, Flux Factory in New York, Bunker in Ljubljana, and presented in Milan thanks to the cultural partnership of Careof , in Bari at the BIG Bari International Gender Festival, in Puglia at RAMDOM, Sa Manifattura and Exmà in Cagliari.
The artist is supported for the project by the large-scale network Stronger Peripheries – A Southern Coalition.
Bio Valentina Medda
Valentina Medda is a Sardinian interdisciplinary artist based in Bologna. His artistic practice unfolds between image, performance and site-specific interventions, investigating the relationship between public and private, body and architecture, city and social belonging. His work has been exhibited and tours in national and international artistic and performance contexts from Bologna, Milan, Cagliari to Paris, New York, Beirut, Brussels and Amsterdam. She was artist in residence at VOORUIT in Gent, BAR in Beirut, Cité des Arts, Paris, Flux Factory, NY, Les bains connective, Brussels, MaisonVentidue, Bologna. In 2019 she was invited to the Grand Tour d’Italie, an international networking project of the Contemporary General Directorate of the Ministry of Culture. He has received, among others, the Cimetta Fund for artistic mobility, Movin up of the Emilia Romagna Region, IAP Mentorship of the NYFA -New York Foundation for Arts and Tina Art PRIZE. Her project Cities by Night Across Borders was selected among the 19 winners of the European program “Perform Europe”.
