Exhibitions, United Kingdom, City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 27 April 2013
Second Sight is the first part of a three-year series of projects entitled Image/Identity, conceived to reflect the continuing trend of human migration as both a differentiated and integrated part of everyday life in Scotland. The project will consider what people are drawn to and what they leave behind and how the migration of Italian people coming to Scotland can aid understanding of migrants' experiences and how contemporary society is shaped today.
Exhibition In Stills' main gallery, photographs by Frank Monaco (USA 1917-2007) and Robert Capa (Hungary, 1913-54) capture moments of refuge, upheaval and separation in Italy during and after WWII, while works by Adrian Paci (Albania 1969) and Fausto Colavecchia (Italy 1959), address the leap of faith made by labour-motivated migrants.
Filmed in Scotland, France and central Italy, newly commissioned video works by Agapito Di Pilla (Italy 1972), Valentina Bonizzi (Italy 1982) and Maria Thereza Alves (Brazil 1960) explore how people sustain family and employment relationships in different countries for prolonged periods of time and offer insight into the complexity of our feelings towards the places we come from and return to.
Exhibition In Stills' main gallery, photographs by Frank Monaco (USA 1917-2007) and Robert Capa (Hungary, 1913-54) capture moments of refuge, upheaval and separation in Italy during and after WWII, while works by Adrian Paci (Albania 1969) and Fausto Colavecchia (Italy 1959), address the leap of faith made by labour-motivated migrants.
Filmed in Scotland, France and central Italy, newly commissioned video works by Agapito Di Pilla (Italy 1972), Valentina Bonizzi (Italy 1982) and Maria Thereza Alves (Brazil 1960) explore how people sustain family and employment relationships in different countries for prolonged periods of time and offer insight into the complexity of our feelings towards the places we come from and return to.
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