Alessandra Ferrini, Like Swarming Maggots: Confronting the Archive of Coloniality Across Italy and Libya, 2024. Courtesy of artist and Archive Books.
We are so pleased to announce the start of Alessandra Ferrini’s Like Swarming Maggots: Confronting the Archive of Coloniality Across Italy and Libya book launch tour. Featuring Ferrini’s long-term research on the colonial and neo-colonial relations between Italy and Libya through a critical engagement with the Italian ‘archive of coloniality’ and its structural violence. The book includes documentation of Ferrini’s major project Gaddafi in Rome, whose last iteration is currently exhibited at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Adriano Pedrosa, as well as a series of works reflecting on positionality, censorship, and the erasure of the genocide perpetrated by the Italians in Libya.
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The publication will be presented alongside a screening of the artist’s film Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film.
October 18, 7pm at Depo, Istanbul
Alessandra Ferrini in conversation with Daphne Vitali and Marina Papazyan and presentation of the artist’s film Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film.
October 22, 7pm at Triangle-Astérides, Marseille
Alessandra Ferrini in conversation with Chiara Cartuccia and presentation of an extract from the artist’s film Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film.
October 24, 5pm at L’Art Rue, Tunis
Alessandra Ferrini in conversation with Chiara Cartuccia and presentation of the artist’s film Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film.
October 29, 6pm Villa Romana, Florence
Alessandra Ferrini in conversation with Elena Agudio, Mistura Allison and Barbara Spadaro and presentation of the artist’s film Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film.
October 31, 6pm at MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Alessandra Ferrini in conversation with Daphne Vitali and presentation of the artist’s film Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film.
Like Swarming Maggots: Confronting the Archive of Coloniality Across Italy and Libya by Alessandra Ferrini, an editorial project supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (12th edition, 2023), which aims to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide.
The Villa Romana e.V. maintains the Villa Romana and the Villa Romana Prize.
The main sponsor is the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Other sponsors are the Deutsche Bank Foundation, the BAO Foundation as well as - project related - numerous private individuals, companies and foundations from all over the world.
This project is also supported by:
