Inauguration of the exhibition, part of the Migrart project – it will be followed by a participatory journey between Italy and Slovenia
GORIZIA – Menti Libere celebrates its tenth anniversary with a symbolic event that will be hosted by the European Capital of Culture 2025. Friday 17 October the collective – that from 2015 collects voices and signs of contemporary migrations through rolls of paper spread along routes around the world – trasformerà Gorizia e Nova Gorica in un unico spazio espositivo transfrontaliero grazie a “Unroll the border”, initiative carried out with the support of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, as part of the initiatives for GO!2025 and in collaboration with various local partners including the Municipality of Romans d'Isonzo.
THE INAUGURATION – All 18 in viale D'Annunzio 3, in Gorizia, the nine historical scrolls of the project will be presented together for the first time: quasi 300 meters of drawings and testimonies collected by 2015 to date between Mali, Senegal, Uganda, Bosnia and along the Balkan route. Together with the meters of the Menti Libere collective there will also be four international artists met in these ten years: Matteo Bompasso, Michele Cattani, Spartak Khachanov and Raffaele Saviano.
THE PATH – Once the inauguration-meeting is over, the public will be invited to participate in a collective journey towards Carinarnica, the former customs house, today a cultural garrison on the border, other exhibition venue of the exhibition (can be visited until 25 October, in both locations every day from 17 at 19). This symbolic passage from Italy to Slovenia, standing, rappresenterà fisicamente l’idea di “srotolare” the borders, transforming the border from a line of separation into a meeting space: «With this inauguration we want to reiterate that borders can be open cultural construction sites, later – explained a spokesperson for the Menti Libere collective -. Walking together from Gorizia to Carinarnica is a poetic and political gesture that perfectly embodies the spirit of Migrart». The evening will end with refreshments offered to all participants, a moment of conviviality to celebrate ten years of a project that has always put human encounters at the center and which will start again for a new trip to the Balkans in November 2025.
THE PROJECTMIGRART – Born in 2015 from an idea of the Menti Libere collective, Migrart documented through paper rolls 30 meters the stories and drawings of thousands of migrants encountered along the routes around the world. The project combines participatory art, activism and anthropological research, transforming creativity into a tool for meeting and reporting.
“Unroll the border”: Gorizia and Nova Gorica
become a single cross-border exhibition space
Inauguration of the exhibition, part of the Migrart project – it will be followed by a participatory journey between Italy and Slovenia
GORIZIA – Menti Libere celebrates its tenth anniversary with a symbolic event that will be hosted by the European Capital of Culture 2025. Friday 17 October the collective – that from 2015 collects voices and signs of contemporary migrations through rolls of paper spread along routes around the world – trasformerà Gorizia e Nova Gorica in un unico spazio espositivo transfrontaliero grazie a “Unroll the border”, initiative carried out with the support of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, as part of the initiatives for GO!2025 and in collaboration with various local partners including the Municipality of Romans d'Isonzo.
THE INAUGURATION – All 18 in viale D'Annunzio 3, in Gorizia, the nine historical scrolls of the project will be presented together for the first time: quasi 300 meters of drawings and testimonies collected by 2015 to date between Mali, Senegal, Uganda, Bosnia and along the Balkan route. Together with the meters of the Menti Libere collective there will also be four international artists met in these ten years: Matteo Bompasso, Michele Cattani, Spartak Khachanov and Raffaele Saviano.
THE PATH – Once the inauguration-meeting is over, the public will be invited to participate in a collective journey towards Carinarnica, the former customs house, today a cultural garrison on the border, other exhibition venue of the exhibition (can be visited until 25 October, in both locations every day from 17 at 19). This symbolic passage from Italy to Slovenia, standing, rappresenterà fisicamente l’idea di “srotolare” the borders, transforming the border from a line of separation into a meeting space: «With this inauguration we want to reiterate that borders can be open cultural construction sites, later – explained a spokesperson for the Menti Libere collective -. Walking together from Gorizia to Carinarnica is a poetic and political gesture that perfectly embodies the spirit of Migrart». The evening will end with refreshments offered to all participants, a moment of conviviality to celebrate ten years of a project that has always put human encounters at the center and which will start again for a new trip to the Balkans in November 2025.
THE PROJECT MIGRART – Born in 2015 from an idea of the Menti Libere collective, Migrart documented through paper rolls 30 meters the stories and drawings of thousands of migrants encountered along the routes around the world. The project combines participatory art, activism and anthropological research, transforming creativity into a tool for meeting and reporting.
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Gorizia, GO 34170 Italy + Google Map