Rilaben/Paz — Dear Lucy

Performative installation

Performative installation

January 25, 2024,

opening time: 5pm– 10pm, Project room, Am Flutgraben 3, 12435, Berlin.

suggest entrance slots (door downstairs opens) at info@rilaben.com

17:00

19:30

21:00

please inform us of your visit at info@rilaben.com

Rilaben/Paz — Dear Lucy

From grandchildren to grandparents, from Africa to Europe, from humans to more-than-human beings: Dear Lucy is a performative project about the manifold connecting threads between personal and collective history, and between the body’s presence in the here and now, its origins in the past, and its orientation toward the future. The Italian-born artists Rilaben/Paz derive this work from their shared experience with family members who were active in the colonial army in the 1930s in what is now Ethiopia. Dear Lucy is based on letters Rilaben’s grandfather wrote to his family during the almost 30 years he worked as a doctor in East Africa. He followed the troops in 1935, when Italy, under the fascist government of Benito Mussolini, invaded the country to establish a colonial empire.

Enrico L’Abbate aka Rilaben (b. 1977 in Italy) lives and works in Berlin.
www.rilaben.com

Valentina Lapolla aka Tina Salvadori Paz (b. 1979 in Italy) lives and works in Florence.
www.valentinalapolla.it

In Zusammenarbeit mit/ In collaboration with:

JDZazie and Cristina Abati , Musik/music

Ted Lab, Dr. Giuseppe Andrea L’Abbate, Pisa University https://tedlab.4do.it/lucy.html

Affect and Colonialism Network, Berlin FU,https://affect-and-colonialism.net/video/dear-lucy/

Fosca, MAD Murate Art District residency, Regione Toscana, Fabbrica Europa/PARC , Firenze, IT

Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, AT

Flutgraben e.V, Lakestudios Berlin, DE

AL288-1 Knochenabbildungen und 3D-Modelle von: elucy.org

EN Übersetzung: Pina Ricciardi