By looking to the Mediterranean past, the exhibition attempts to grasp the mysterious prophecy at work in the mechanism of the fall of empires. In particular, it highlights the dialectical interplay between decadence and emancipation, vandalism and heroism, or ruin and foundation. These are the stages that always accompany the inevitable questioning of every civilisation.
The artworks have been chosen for their equivocal beauty, as well as for their commitment which is not limited to a historical reading of the theme, but rather approaches 'empire' as an entity of political, moral or cultural domination that needs to be re-examined. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through time to the heart of Bonifacio's heritage, a city that was the target of many powers (Pisan, Genoese, Aragonese, etc.) and even the temporary home of a future emperor: Napoleon Bonaparte.
This second edition of the Biennale, with just under twenty artists invited, recounts the nostalgia of lost paradises, the emancipation of thought, the slow conquest of freedom and the cyclical nature of the construction of an ideal that already carries within it the seeds of its destruction. It embodies both in its palindrome title - Roma Amor - and its visitor experience - a reversible itinerary that can be taken in two directions - the ambivalence of history, combining destruction and creation.
EventActivities
Exhibitedworks
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AES+F
The Feast of Trimalchio ; Panorama #9
Three channel video installation, 2009 ; photographie 120 x 255 cm, 2020 - 00
Alexandre Bavard
Temps Mort
Multimedia installation and performance, 2024 - 00
Ali Cherri
Grafting (F) ; Grafting (J) ; Staring at a Thousand Splendid Suns
Sculptures, Clay, 36 x 13 cm, 2018 ; Stoneware, 40 x 22 x 15 cm, 2019 ; Stoneware, 15 x 16 x 6 cm, 2021 - 00
Blanca Li
Didon et Enée
Video installation, 2024 - 00
Eneri
Sans titre
Spray et vidéo, 2024 - 00
Hiwa K
The Bell
Sculpture, wood, bronze, 140 x 120 x 160 cm, 2007 - 2015 - 00
Laurent Grasso
Soleil Noir ; Studies into the Past 1, 2, 3, 4
16 mm film, 11 min 40, 2014 ; Oil on wood, 19.5 x 22 x 4.5 cm, 2024 ; Oil on wood, 19.8 x 22 x 4.5 cm, 2024 ; Oil on wood, 17.5 x 23.2 x 4.5 cm ; Oil on wood, 16.5 x 22.5 x 4.5 cm, 2024 - 00
Magdalena Jetelova
Domestication of a Pyramid
Installation, mixed techniques, 2024 - 00
Shirin Neshat
The Fury
HD video, 16 min 11, 2023 - 00
Sophia Al Maria
The Future Was Desert, Part 1 and 2
Videos with found footage, sound, 5 min 23 and 4 min 35, 2016 - 00
Youssef Nabil
In Love, Denver ; Natacha fume le Narguilé, Cairo ; Deux Djellabas, Paris ; I Saved my Belly Dancer
Photographs, 2012 ; 2000 ; 2007 ; Video, sound, 12 min, 2015 - 00
Kehinde Wiley
Death of Two Soldiers
Sculpture, bronze, 24,5 × 136 × 89 cm, 2022 - 00
Bill Viola
Tristan's Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
Video installation, sound, 10 min 16s, 2005 - 00
Valérie Giovanni
Territorii Vox - Saisir le délaissement
Performance, installation of 5 looped HD videos, colour, sound, variable durations, 2023 - 00
Salomé Chatriot
Idols #2 ; Idols #3 ; Don't ignore that I am constituted of many small pieces that don't interconnect together (The Matriarch 1)
Enamel and oil on aluminium, 180 x 165 cm, 2023 ; Enamel and oil on aluminium, 180 x 165 cm, 2023 ; Leather, galalith, aluminium powder, 2024 - 00
Sergio Roger
Broken Torso ; Corinthian Column ; Ionic Column
Sculptures, ancient linen, polyurethane, 180 x 75 x 40 cm, 2024 ; Ancient linen, wood, variable dimensions ; Ancient linen, wood, 200 x 67 x 36 cm, 2023 - 00
Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos
Tout ce qui brille n'est pas de l'or
Rubber, gold leaf, sand, 2024 - 00
Jean-Michel Basquiat
No Title
Drawing, 106 x 75 cm, 1982
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