Eva Frapiccini /

106 Statale Jonica

Mafia and devastation in the deep South Italy

[Photographs, polaroids, map of the Sud Italy, postcards, 1 roadsign]

Project in collaboration with Filippo Romano

The "106 Statale Jonica is a mixed media installation composed of a video and a series of polaroids, postcards, roadsigns, and objects collected along the Ionian coast, in the Southern regions of Puglia and Calabria, 491 kilometers along which the striking beauty of nature, with its Mediterranean colours and perfumes, shares the landscape with painfull devastation perpretated by Mafia and organized crime. Illegal houses and surreal unfineshed architectures, a sci-fi landscape inhabited by generations of people trying to lead a normal life. 106 Statale Jonica is a critical postcard of their everyday.