Chiara Cartuccia
Curator, 2019, Resident
November – December
In collaboration with Fabra i Coats.
Side of the Sea : Mediterranean Dinner
In the on-going art world(s) conversations around the Mediterranean Sea, depicted all at the same time as historical cross-road for cultures and as contemporary super-national militarised border, the low-key re-emergency of the peculiar term Mediterraneanism could inspire some further investigation. Mediterraneanism, first codified by Italian anthropologist Giuseppe Sergi in early 20th century, is a racial ideology that identifies certain characteristics common to all populations inhabiting the regions surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. In the last years the word has been used and misused, in support of some diverse attempts to point out at a supposed ‘natural’ affinity linking people north and south of the sea.