Progetto

Where Italy Sleeps

This 360° docu-essay reflects on this event, which raises questions about the role of conservation and the portrayal of colonial heritage. Building upon Benedict Anderson’s beliefs that a Nation is “imagined, and, once imagined, modelled, adapted and transformed,” this video piece stresses the importance of framing the prominent role of colonial narrative as an abiding component of Italy’s national identity. Nevertheless, it approaches the architectural presence as the embodiment of coexisting and often contradicting narratives, explored in conversation with different characters. Hinging around the ever-present testimony given by modernist architecture, this work aims to invite the viewer, as Carter Walsh asserts: “to open and engage venues and paths of decolonial conviviality, venues and paths that take us beyond, while at the same time undoing, the singularity and linearity of the West.” Considering colonial narrative as an endemic aspect of the Italian national identity, what happens when they start losing ground? Do they collapse, or will they merge into a new ones? Consequently, who needs to be decolonized: the colonized or the colonizer’s mind?

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