Med utstillingen Salsedine – Sjøluft, som er del av prosjektet Archipelago ved arkitekten og fotografen Corinna Del Bianco, bringer vi atmosfæren fra Middelhavsøyene til Oslo. Del Bianco vil selv være tilstede på åpningen den 24. april og presentere utstillingen.
Archipelago er et fotoprosjekt som ønsker å dokumentere de ulike Middelhavsøyenes kulturidentitet og å verdsette mangfoldet vi finner her. Prosjektet undersøker spesielt de bebodde øyene i hele dette øyriket – arkipelet -, og forholdet mellom bebyggelsen og landskapet, både landjorda og havet omkring.
Utstillingen på Instituttet viser et utvalg av bildene i prosjektet og konsentrerer seg om de italienske øyene: de ti øyene som tilhører arkipelet utenfor Toscana og Campania-regionene; De eoliske, egadiske og de pelagiske øyene, samt øya Pantelleria sørvest for Sicilia.
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
The Mediterranean is an inland sea, cradle of some of the planet’s most ancient civilisations. On its islands, living is determined by the encounter between the sea and the land, and throughout history this relationship has generated different cultures, responding to peculiar social, economic and cultural needs. Today, by basing its economy mainly on seasonal seaside tourism, the diversity of the Mediterranean islands is flattening out, nullifying centuries of synergetic relationship with the natural context that has allowed the development of specific identities.
Throughout history, the specificity of the islands of the Mediterranean Sea has generated unique responses to living, social, economic and cultural needs. The Italian islands are exemplary in this, for example Elba which, since Etruscan times, was an important player in the iron and
steel industry, with its iron quarries, or Favignana with its tuna fishing and production of which, with the Florio family, it was an important innovator worldwide, or Pantelleria with its ‘heroic agriculture’. These traditional productions, closely linked to the natural context, have been decisive in the local economic, social and cultural development, but today, due to the predominantly tourist promotion of these areas, they have been abandoned and, in the best cases, are remembered in museums that are visited only by the most curious travellers.
Within the framework of the 2005 UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, Archipelago is a photographic research project aimed at documenting and enhancing the diversity of Mediterranean islands and their cultural identity, and focusing on archipelagos, paying particular attention to inhabited islands, investigating the relationship of inhabited nuclei with the terrestrial and marine landscape.
The project started in 2018 and aims to map the main islands of the Mediterranean archipelagos over a period of 50 years. The project started on the Italian islands, to expand in 2024 to the Greek islands, which represent a milestone in terms of importance and variety of history, art and culture.
Utstillingen står til 26. august og kan sees i Instituttets åpningstider og i anledning våre kveldsarrangementer på torsdager, som den 8.5, 15.5 og 12.6.
Det dreier seg om en vandreutstilling og er et initiativ ved Det italienske utenriksdepartementet.
