• PABLO MESA CAPELLA: CARTES DE VISITE. MATERIA SENSIBILE
Cartes de visite – materia sensibile, a project by Pablo Mesa Capella, stems from an intensive search for small size photographs, anyone of them providing the audience with some information about the person portrayed. Pastificio Cerere’s courtyard houses the site-specific installation: the above mentioned images – anonymous, fragments of private histories abandoned at the mercy of chaos – have been ‘rescued’ by the artist. He interpreted them in order to redeem their memory, by the mean of a translation of the sense on a more universal, common ground.
Outside the building, the path traced in the neighborhood – driven by the voices of the inhabitants – allows us to experience again the old San Lorenzo, a district which underwent a major change in the last twenty-five years. The artist has been collecting for months direct evidence about the district, listening to elderlies, shopkeepers, immigrants or non-resident students. Thus, he has mapped the diverse realities of a place rich in history and stories. The past – either ironic and dramatic – revives through the narration of the inhabitants and the photographs; it becomes the ‘tangible matter’ (materia sensibile) silently invading the streets of San Lorenzo. Lots of ‘listening point’ will be strewed throughout the district: thanks to an audio guide distributed for free at the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere the audience will get to know the different voices of San Lorenzo.
