Carrico Massimo, MG 48° 50°, Livorno
2023
The title references the opening of the 16th Century Livornese Constitution (Leggi Livornine):
‘To all your merchants of any nation, Leuantini and Ponentines, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, German, & Italian, Hebrew, Turkish, and Moors, Armenians, Persians, & others, greetings.’
For this project we asked the people of Livorno, friends and colleagues to translate the English phrase ‘Through such storms, against such tides, towards new shores’ into the most spoken languages in Livorno. These variations of the artwork can be found in sites on streets across the city.
Two earlier works ‘Rose’ and ‘So much noise to make a silence’ are also exhibited. Curated by Juan Pablo Macías and Alessandra Poggianti.