«Borders change, it is enough to listen to the stories of those who travel to realize it. Artists are those wayfarers, deserters, seekers of hidden truths, as Emanuele Trevi writes, thanks to whom we can and must go beyond the convention of the limit that a frontier imposes; that's why borders change ”.
Aberto Salvadori, director of the ICA Milan Foundation and curator of the exhibition.

ICA Milano - Istituto Contemporaneo per l e Arti continues its programming with a new unpublished exhibition project, the personal exhibition of Masbedo, an artistic duo formed by Nicolò Massazza (1973) and Iacopo Bedogni (1970).

"Why borders change" is the title of the exhibition, curated by Alberto Salvadori, which will occupy the two floors of the Foundation from Saturday 12 October to Sunday 10 November 2019.
The focus of the project is a reflection on the past and present history of Sicily, which has always been the land of everyone and no one, a mythopoeic place par excellence. The exhibition brings together pre-existing works, re-editions and unpublished works, all generated in Sicilian territory and linked to its cultural and social complexity. Elements of Sicilian history merge together, such as the story of the production company Panaria Film and the testimony of the mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando, famous references to the cinematography of the directors Vittorio De Seta, Ugo Gregoretti, Francesco Rosi and Luchino Visconti, and the linked to the Tamil community of Palermo.

The exhibition also becomes an opportunity to present the themes most dear to the artists: the history of cinema and its link with performance, the image as a tool for reflection and dissemination of memory, the importance of cultural action and time its performative dimension itself.

Through an entirely Italian historical and cultural narrative path, the Masbedo family unveil the creation of a dream, the cinematic one, brought to life in the spaces of ICA. The artists thus activate a reasoning on the cinema of the past, conducting a reflection on the image deported to memory and on its ability to influence cultural and performative actions.

"Why borders change" is an exhibition co-produced by ICA Milano with In Between Art Film and Stone Island.

The executive co-production is entrusted to the AreaVideo Cultural Association.