Contemporary Waves [2016-2022]
Contemporary Waves is inspired by the Mediterranean Sea; it is an invitation to decipher reality, to refine the inner gaze, to glimpse a common horizon beyond chaos.
The Mediterranean, one of the places where some of the world's oldest civilizations originated, has today become the scene of the drama of refugees and migrants fleeing or expatriates to survive.
Contemporaneity is a daily distillate news. Contemporaneity is an audience that looks in the mirror.
Contemporaneity is a mix of football matches, dance rhythms and applauses at the funerals.
Contemporaneity dresses in rags and luxury, in distraction and fear.
Contemporaneity is history of limits, transits and borders.
It is the beach on which religious hymns, invocations to frau Merkel
and songs of refugee go to breaking on.
Contemporaneity is history of bodies that emerge, from a bottom
without light, all together floating, mixed in confusion such as scrap
of a shipwreck.
In the last part of Contemporary Waves an audio fragment has been inserted from: 'Protests by Syrian migrants - A song of the homeland', a/v document recorded in Calais in November 2014 by Ed Emery, SOAS, University of London, Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGK8kTlHS0s
released May 12, 2020