Questo Anonimato è Sovversivo - This Anonymity is Subversive, 2017-2023
“Since April 2017, I have been travelling across every country in the European Union, carrying a 30-meter-long white cotton cloth.
I ask people to get involved in the creation of a collective embroidery, inviting them to express themselves without limits and boundaries, just like the European Union should be.”
THE JOURNEY
Questo Anonimato è Sovversivo has travelled to:
Royal School of Needlework - London, United Kingdom (2017); Museum Europäischer Kulturen - Berlin, Germany (2017); MAN, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro - Nuoro, Italy (2017); MCK Multimedijalni Kulturni Centar - Split, Croatia (2018); Designcentrum - Östersund, Sweden (2018); Dum Umeni Mesta Brna, House of the Arts - Brno, Czech Republic (2018); ATOPOS cvc - Athens, Greece (2019); Garage Art Space - Nicosia, Cyprus (2019); CRUCE Arte y Pensamiento - Madrid, Spain (2020); Family House - Montreuil, France (2020); Family House – Chernomorets, Bulgaria (2020); ACT Gfiajn Tuffiefia, Melliefia, Malta (2020); Family House – Lisbon, Portugal (2020); Family House – Elblag, Poland (2020); Temple Bar Gallery + Studios – Dublin, Irland (2020); FdG Projects – Brussels, Belgium (2020); Tech Arts – Vilnius, Lithuania (2020); Casino Luxembourg – Luxembourg (2020); Museum Arnhem – Arnhem, Netherlands (2021); Fiatal Képzomuveszek, Studioja Egyesulet – Budapest, Hungary (2021); Kunsthalle Bratislava - Bratislava, Slovakia (2021); Public street – Ljubljana, Slovenia (2023); <rotor> Centre for contemporary art – Graz, Austria (2023); Riga Art Space - Riga, Latvia (2023); Pesula - Fiskars, Finland (2023); Eesti Käsitöö Maja rahvakunstigalerii - Tallin, Estonia (2023); Freetown Christiania - Copenaghen, Denmark (2023); Tranzit.ro - Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2023).
THE COMPREHENSIVE EXHIBITION
Documentation of the comprehensive exhibition curated by Efisio Carbone and Camilla Pavan
from 29th of April to 25th of June, 2023 Fondazione MACC, Calasetta, Italy
ph Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio
THE BOOK
Over the years, thousands of people have participated with joy and lively interest in Questo Anonimato è Sovversivo.
In order not to forget anyone and to keep the focus on the idea of anonymity, we would like to thank all of those who have contributed with their time, patience and love to the making of this collective work of art.
A project by Ruben Montini
Studio assistant: Mattia Ozzy B.
Editor: Camilla Pavan
Co-Editor: Nicolò Bruno
Design: brnlove.com
Communication: Nicolò Bruno, Camilla Pavan
Contributors: Ugnė Bužinskaitė, Mehdi Dakhli, Micaela Deiana, Sophia Malik, Lýdia Pribišová, Malin Ståhl, Mirjam Westen, Angie Wyman, Martin Vaněk
Translators: Milan Gustaaf Haanstra, Julia Heim, Alen Maulitov
Photo credits: Ela Bialkowska, Krišs Apšenieks, Sven Becker, Ugnė Bužinskaitė, Jessica Castelari, Filippo Ferrarese, Orla Goodwin, Véro Kesseler, Gàbor Kristòf, Francesca Mercieca, Mattia Ozzy B., Ruben Montini, Nicola Morittu, Ivan Moudov, Marc Szaryk, Joana Vieira de Castro
Cover Image: Ruben Montini, To those hands that make things happen, 2023 spray paint and marker on cotton, velvet, Sardinian brocade, African fabrics, Golden metallic threads
160 x 320 cm
ph Nicola Morittu