I SANTI DELLA GIUDECCA

2004

14 digital prints, gilded and mounted under plexiglass, 45x60x1.6 cm., sound

Edition of 1

14 “icons” of the people of Giudecca — the island of common people, communists, socialists, prisoners, soccer fans and elderly retired. Soundtrack: excerpts from interviews, mixed together with sounds of Giudecca. The voices remain anonymous, creating an overall flow of different thoughts, expressions and dialects as addition to the personal “portrait-icons”. Discourses on life, good and evil mix up with recollections of past life in the marine, of the quality of meat around the world, or the different pistons in a steam engine…