HOMECOMING

Curatorial project

With Clara Scola

2016

HOMECOMING is a project born from the need to bring microgallery back in Tirana, after the gallery hosted Martina Dierico’s exhibition in Bergamo.
microgallery is the project room of MAPS - Mobile Archive on Public Space - , it is conceived as a portable gallery in miniature, a “white cube” of 50x50x50cm, also hosted every time by a different space for its events.
Martina Dierico and Clara Scola are the young artists who will curate the project through a journey that will stop in some cities, each of which will host microgallery for a one night exhibition.
5 stages, 5 exhibitions each with an artist who lives or works in that city. 5 events hosted by a different space in every city. Microgallery moved from Bergamo (where previous events had been organized) to Bologna, Senigallia, Bari and finally to Tirana. Every place hosted one micro-exhibition that lasted one day. HOMECOMING is both a big curatorial project and an artistic one, breaking the existing threshold between these two professions.
We can consider HOMECOMING as an open work, namely the kind of work that the author leaves deliberately in- complete, handing it out to other people.
The artists/curators invited five artists to collaborate with them: Daniele Maffeis, Eva Marisaldi, Andrea Nacciarriti, Fabrizio Bellomo and Haveit collective, making dialogues and connections, and so automatically becoming more like containers of ideas rather than carriers of a complete project; in each step the procedure was still ongoing, together with the artist, the work and the hosts. HOMECOMING is also a collateral event and a countdown towards “Teatri I Gjelberimit”, a huge retrospective about art in public space in Tirana from 1998 to 2016.