Discreet Monuments

Memorial

Memorial is a series of eighteen photographs taken where the bodies of murdered sex workers were found. All of the places are within the province of Turin, and the deaths all occurred between 1993 and 2001.

Happy

Happy is a sound art piece that presents the voice of Happy, a Nigerian girl who lives in Italy recounting fourteen stories of events that left a mark on her skin. The audio in Edo language is accompanied by a written translation.

Iye Omoge

Iye Omoge consists of photographs and maps of Corso Regina Margherita, a road in Turin which runs alongside a park. It recalls the time when the pavement was divided up into areas by Nigerian sex workers who frequented the place.

Universal Embassy

Universal Embassy shows three buildings, which in 2006 were hosting or have hosted Somali embassies, along with a reconstruction of their history. The buildings are located in Rome, London and Brussels.

The Legacy

The Legacy sees the history of Czechoslovakia through the lens of the love story between Milan Štefánik, Slovak national hero who died in a plane crash, and Giuliana Benzoni, an important figure in the Italian political and cultural scene.

Lety

Lety is the documentation of a trip which involved two Slovak Romany singers, František Ďuďa and Martina Ďuďová, who visited a commemoration for the victims of the concentration camp at Lety in the Czech Republic.

Exeunte

Exeunte is a video composed of film clips that show the interpretation of actors who never made the limelight. Only the final sentences reveal what links the actors who make up the strange cast of Exeunte: all of them were killed.

Ma belle ka di

Ma belle ka di originates from the fascination exerted by Wide Sargasso Sea, a novel by Jean Rhys. The video evokes the literary figure of Christophine Dubois, created by Rhys on the model of her own Martiniquais nanny.

Highlife

Highlife is an installation realized together with Can Sungu which houses a mash up of Nollywood clips, a private video with the building of a villa, a store sign, videocassette cases, coming from a former Nigerian videoshop in Turin.