SACCOlibero - Environmental Artistic Installation
The Salt and Sea Ecomuseum is pleased to present its new artistic installation "SACCOlibero" created within LAAI, the Itinerant Environmental Art Laboratory designed by Antonella De Nisco and Arch Giorgio Teggi, artists who for years have been implementing artistic practices in places, cities, natural spaces and marginal gardens, schools and museums with installations that hold a civic commitment, in reference to collective, emotional and subjective memory.
SACCOlibero was conceived as a visible and usable metaphor of both the urban and natural landscape of Cervia and is inspired by the work of the salt workers’s wives, who used worn jute sacks to stuff the salt: the installation therefore also wants to be a monument dedicated to these women and their strength, bringing to light their very important role.
The creation of the artifact took place through a real co-participated laboratory, where citizens were called to participate and cooperate together in the weaving / mending of the large sack, starting from a semi-finished product previously prepared by the artist.
This creative activity had the aim of experimenting with new forms of collective use of space as a poetic maintenance of places:
- building natural woven / intertwined architectures that can take on an affective, symbolic, evocative dimension;
- inhabiting places for a few hours as an act of listening, the ability to imagine objects, to reflect on the provisional nature and the temporary soul of things;
- preserve natural landscapes with semi-permanent or removable actions / objects;
- being close, living together by experiencing the place through significant-narrative points, getting in touch, organizing a place;
- art as a meeting of sociability that can be re-proposed in other contexts or / and capable of creating a repercussion where a moment of sharing and comparison with respect to the personal experience of each participant was created
The installation was included in the first edition of TERRENA, Tracciati di Land art in Bassa Romagna, a festival entirely dedicated to works that affect the natural landscape.