CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2019

ITSLIQUID International Art Show

THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space | December 05, 2019 – January 10, 2020

Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi | December 06, 2019 – January 10, 2020

CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2019 focuses on the theme of IDENTITIES and on the relationship between man, society and contemporary cities, exploring the lifestyles and the ways of being that run on a parallel level of our ordinary life.

organized by ITSLIQUID Group
curator Luca Curci
in collaboration with Venice Events, Ca’ Zanardi
project manager Giulia Tassi
project coordinators Amaride Ferrante, Gaia Persichetti, Viola Persico
collaborators Siria Bottazzo, Ottavia Galatà, Ottavia Marilungo, Michela Mazzurana, Irene Scilipoti
graphic designer Fabio Murgolo

OPENING: CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2019

2019, VSW Press, 8×8 inches, 40 pages, saddle-stitched, open edition.

Death Trucks is a group of images ma in different areas of the United States that record the interiors of shipping trucks. Smugglers for the illegal trafficking of people have used these windowless semi-trucks, which can become lethal to immigrants who could overheat or be asphyxiated in the unventilated compartment.

Death Trucks

Visual Studies Workshop

Project Space program from October 8-November 3, 2018

Rigoberto Díaz has created works that are largely about the physical trials of immigration. For his Project Space residency, Diaz will continue working on projects and with processes that he has been developing for several years and that need different cities for their culmination. In one he rides inside the trunk of a car while creating a form of documentation of different Sanctuary Cities. And his Death Trucks project is a series of photographs that are records of cargo trucks’ interiors from different areas of the United States. The so-called Death Trucks are those that are used for the illegal trafficking of people and can become a kind of gas chamber. The images capture the moment of being enclosed.

http://www.vsw.org/exhibition/sanctuary-city-by-rigoberto-diaz/

Death trucks

Fotografias tomadas con celular/ Photographs taken with a cell phone