Eva Frapiccini /

WEANED (Svezzati)

[Mixed Media installation, Video with images from different archives, 10 Led Digital Boards with texts in italian and english]

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Weaned is a public art project pointing to the everyday and the suffering generated by history and personal experiences. It stems from the necessity to unveil the connections between someone's life cycle and that of the city he/she lives in. The question'Whereare you, and where are you going to?' was asked to the inhabitants of Bologna, who embraced its metaphoric meanings, about their position towards life rather than a specific physical place. In fact, only children answered by indicating places or actions, possibly because of their lack of experience in relation to the past, as they have not yet reviewed the correspondance between their desire and reality-reflections, these, typical of adults. The experience of time matures in adults a perspective for the end, a reading key that allows for evaluation of daily actions in a broaden life frame. There's a real connection between one's history, and the history of a square, between the consciousness of one's past and the long history of a city like Bologna. Where do the answers of many citizens lead us to, and how can they reconstitute citizenry?