Mural in Graniti, Sicily, created from May 17th to June 10th, 2016
collaboration with Vigdis Fjellheim
Interferenza is our contribution to Graniti Murales (www.granitimurales.org) in Sicily, created over three weeks in May and June 2016. The mural is located on the walls of an old and abandoned gym behind the school on Via Gangi, with a smaller satellite piece in the center of the village at Piazza Roma.
https://www.granitimurales.org/
The mural features a variety of motifs that, when combined into a frieze, interfere with each other in different ways. The juxtaposition and combination of these elements are intended to provoke disturbance and curiosity in the viewers.
Among the motifs depicted are: a boy being rescued from a refugee boat, an overloaded car placed in front of a row of people climbing a hill, a monstrous bird from another climatic zone overlapping an old man, and frogs surrounding a girl in a Norwegian national costume who appears to be falling or jumping.
The backdrop for this project addresses the ongoing global migration crisis and the movement of people, spurred not only by the tragic refugee situation but also by climate change, which forces people to flee and relocate.