(toskanews) – Talking about the topic of human rights through contemporary art. The project of the Brescia Musei Foundation continues and comes to talk about migrations with an exhibition dedicated to Khalid Albaih and focused on political illustration, but also on a series of installations and videos of great impact, which look at the recent history of Sudan.
«For about two years – said ad askanews Stefano Karadjov, director of the Brescia Musei Foundation – Sudan’s humanitarian drama is the most tragic on a geopolitical level, over 20 million displaced people and refugees. A destroyed country, its capital, an ancient capital, Khartoum completely devastated, even in the beautiful British colonial buildings. A dramatic context that is very little known and therefore difficult for public opinion to perceive. For this reason, the Brescia museums have chosen to continue their cycle dedicated to contemporary art in relation to human rights by choosing the most important Sudanese artist Khalid Albaih.”
Curated by Elettra Stamboulis also within the scope of Peace Festivalthe exhibition collects Albaih’s graphic works, which during the Arab Spring became real images of struggle and which the artist himself conceives as destined to circulate and be used, but also presents videos collected on the Internet which document the shipwrecks in sea or installations created with the passports of real migrants who then arrived in the Brescia area within which, as in a tent, it is possible to listen to their story.
«It is a sort of master exhibition – added the director -. On the one hand we have the need to tell the story of a perfect stranger to the Italian public, therefore the need to tell his story very well and in this sense it is a small anthology. On the other hand, we needed to intercept a theme that linked this artist to Italian, Mediterranean and European events and this is why we chose the thematic approach of the exhibition’s subtitle: Migrations to the north, the time of migrations to the north».
Among the works there is also a sofa sculpture that portrays a large female figure, almost Henry Moore-style, but in an African context.
«It is a symbolic realization of the grandmother – concluded Stefano Karadjov – who in every large African family represents the attachment to the principles of the family, of the home». A home that millions of people lose every day on the borders of a Europe which, from other corners of the world, is seen as a mirage, but also as something cruel and repellent. Like the crown of stars of the Christ-migrant which is the symbolic image of the exhibition.
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