Mezomaro
Giuliana Racco
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- Title
- Mezomaro
- Year
- 2016
- Duration
- 7 min 7 s
- Format & Technical
Single channel, HD video, Black and white, Sound
Giuliana Racco’s black and white film Mezomaro, whose title comes from the word meaning “Mediterranean” in Esperanto. The work combines animated chalk drawings, photographs, newspaper clippings and archival images to explore ideas of mobility and citizenship, poetically expanding current global situations to the history of people and geography over time. Drawing on Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso (1516) – a work which contains both a proto-science-fiction and a battle scene on Lampedusa, where Racco’s photographs were taken – Mezomaro references our contemporary context by shedding light on how a minuscule island located between continents is connected to a global crisis situation via the multitude of people from different areas of the world attempting to reach its shores.
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Giuliana Racco
- Artist
1976, Toronto
Giuliana Racco has made Europe her home since 2002. She completed her graduate degree in Visual Arts at the IUAV University in Venice, and later worked as an assistant professor in the visual arts workshops held by Lewis Baltz. She has participated in international research and residency programmes including Spain (Hangar Barcelona); West Bank (Campus in Camps/DAAR Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency Bethlehem); Israel (Jerusalem Center for the Visual Arts); and has conducted workshops in a variety of environments, including universities, town halls, factories and refugee camps. Amongst various exhibitions, Racco’s work has also been featured in Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, Fotomuseum Winterthur, SESC de Artes – Mediterrane, São Paulo, and Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg.
Last update 21st June 2017