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COLLECTIVE ART
"Still Sea" 2019 - Art Performance @La Nuvola (Rome)
The team is called Save the Youths, "Save the Youths." They play in the third division, in Fermo, in the Marche region: 35,000 inhabitants and one hundred and forty asylum seekers. The African players of Save the Youths crossed the desert, passed through Libyan prisons, and then made the sea crossing on a boat.
Guy Chiappaventi, writer and journalist for La7, tells the story of this precarious team by definition, which is also a tale of the Italian provinces in the era of closed ports and resentment toward immigrants, which erupts also and especially during league matches, from the stands filled with white spectators.
With the author of the book, it was therefore decided to create, during the press conference at the La Nuvola convention center in Rome, a collective artwork that would represent—in contrast to reality—a playing field with stands full of spectators of color and, on the field, the bright pink handprints of the players, to emphasize the non-existent difference in skin color.
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