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Conflict Correspondences, LOCALEDUE, Bologna, Italy, 23/3/2018-14/4/2018

Curating by Matteo Innocenti

Conflict Correspondences is a gradual project that reflects the diversity, recurrence, and persistence of conflict in many areas of the world. Conflict considered in its broadest sense, not only as war: authoritarian governments, economic collapse, civil disagreement, ideological extremism, lack of individual rights, corruption, violence.

Artists, coming from different states, tell us about the conflict from first-hand experience. Through written correspondence with the curator and a video – already done or new – that is representative of the critical period in their country. The project is based on dialogue, in a no-predetermined way; it takes shape by the modulation of words and waiting, questions and answers that characterize every mutual knowledge – knowledge that, here, takes place through distance, considering the universality of human feelings. The exhibition at LOCALEDUE, Bologna, is the first occasion, which will be followed by a digital catalog, a website and, then, other shows.

Artists: Iván Candeo (Venezuela), Eva Giannakopoulou (Grecia), Lucia Nhamo (Zimbabwe). The artist Dania Menafra is the author of the exhibition graphic concept and design.