VICOLO FOLLETTO ART FACTORIES, from 10 November 2019 to 26 January 2020, in the new exhibition space inside Palazzo Rangone, Corso Garibaldi 1 in Reggio Emilia, presents EXODUS.

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The exhibition with the works of Pablo Allison (UK) and Collettivo FX (IT), curated by Pietro Rivasi, compares two ways of narrating the greatest tragedy of our century: the exodus of thousands of people in search of refuge political or a better existence.

The engine of the two projects is the urgency to tell what happens to people who suffer the consequences caused by a capitalist system that drains the resources of entire countries or unleashes wars to protect the well-being and lifestyle of a minimum percentage. lucky.

The peculiarity of the exhibition is the presentation of two sections of works: on the one hand photographs and sketches will compare the two researches, on the other the production resulting from a shared residence at Vicolo Folletto will be exhibited, which will precede the exhibition and which will make visible the result of the dialogue and exchanges of experiences lived by the two artists with respect to a theme of shared interest.

Sunday 10 November at 5.00 pm meeting in the Gallery with Pablo Allison and Collettivo FX, together with Pietro Rivasi, to talk about the EXODUS exhibition.

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Biographical Notes

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Pablo Allison : Photographs taken from the La Luz de la Bestia reportage project made between 2016 and 2019. The artist traveled with Central American migrants to the US border, sharing their risks, fears and hopes. In 2018 he risked being murdered during a robbery that deprived him of all photographic equipment, while in 2019 he was arrested by the US anti-immigration police, locked up in an ICE for three weeks and then repatriated on a 20-hour journey, entirely. spent handcuffed hands and feet.  

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FX Collective : The FX Collective proposes 3 different projects: Keine Papiere: about 250 wagons constantly traveling between Emilia Romagna and Germany, they were used to carry the message represented by a body lying down and the words "beware, he has no documents" in Italian and German. The choice to take advantage of the train that crosses the borders of Austria and Germany every day, allows us to think about the sense of territorial borders in our time, to the free trade provisions for goods that prevent people fleeing from dictatorships, wars and hunger a equally free movement.