VP8 – La memoria degli spazi vissuti

Ancora una volta – Archival materials from Via Peschiera 8, 2020 – VP8, Via Peschiera 8, Genoa (IT)

VP8, La memoria degli spazi vissuti – Memories from Via Peschiera 8 collective 

– Site specific multimedia installations – Memories from Via Peschiera 8 Genoa, Italy – 2013/2020

According to a whole series of correlated elements, our perception of space changes following diversified motion, in relation to our state of mind and the type of activity that we engage in within a specific time-frame. Our presence in such places does not necessarily have to be related to the idea of possession. The term “abitare”(living) implies a meaning derived from its own Latin etymology: on the one hand, abitare express the connotation of the most commonly used term “habitare”(to keep); secondly, “habere”(to have) is related to the idea of living for a long time in a place until almost owning it, to make it somehow “ours.” According to Heidegger, the living dimension represents the specific man’s capacity to define his ontological dimension’s contours. To highlight the synergistic relationship that occurs through the spaces given by our ordinary, transforming the identity, memory, and being in these same spaces.

The city of Genoa can be recollected in the context of imperfect cities, not perfect in their uniqueness but embellished by the ferment of all the many irregularities that make them unique in their own kind. Places of crossbreeding, solidly positioned into the balanced palette of their own contradictions. Born as a result of a collective project initiated in 2013 in the Prince Pallavicino Villa’s stables, these works propose themselves as an intertwined dialogue within the building’s memory, temporary inhabitants, and archives. These “visual poems” are dedicated to the building and its community, reflecting upon the experiences developed during the seven-year project placed in the halls of Via Peschiera 8, Genoa(IT). Each crossing is also sediment, unfolding possible intersections between the place’s memory through its meanings and temporalities. During the project, the traces left in these temporary familiar places highlighted all the forms, passages, methodologies, and changes experienced while knowing, meeting, imagining, perceiving, and learning from its inhabited spaces and memories. Reflecting upon the different mnemonic temporalities developed in those same spaces, each visual poem focuses on such perceived changes: What has been, what is perceived as, what remains, or, eventually, what could have become.

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MEMORIE DI FAMIGLIA – Niccolò Masini in dialogue with Matteo Brizio / Site-specific Installation: Via Peschiera 8 pigments, found objects, wood, paper, and framed glass – 26.5×54.5cm / VP8, Via Peschiera 8, Genoa (IT) 2020.

MEMORIE DI FAMIGLIA (details) – Niccolò Masini in dialogue with Matteo Brizio / Site-specific Installation: Via Peschiera 8 pigments, found objects, wood, paper, and framed glass – 26.5×54.5cm / VP8, Via Peschiera 8, Genoa(IT) 2020.

ANCORA UNA VOLTA Triptych (detail) – Framed paper fragments of archival photographies, glue, and archival photographies – 39×25 cm (each) (2020)

ANCORA UNA VOLTA Triptych (detail) – Framed paper fragments of archival photographies, glue, and archival photographies – 39×25 cm (each) (2020)

Via Peschiera 8 – Via Peschiera 8 pigments, dust, and marble glaze on canvas, 180cm x 75cm (2020)