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Fuali - Confine fluttuante

2015.
Site-specific installation, 2 road signs - 150x70 cm each

 

The project for the exhibition “Città Difffusa” concerns one of the road signs which indicate the entry and the exit of the city of Montevarchi (Italy).
The one of "Via Tevere" is located in the ideal place to practice the symbolic cancellation of a limit. Here, the linear countryside landscape is grafted onto the urban one, causing a harmony that is rarely seen in the outskirts. This space shows the gradual passage from the city to the countryside, as if we were in the presence of a floating border which knows no bounds. Legally, if we erase the letters from the entrance and exit sign of a city, it loses its functions: the city no longer exists. Without the writing MONTEVARCHI, the sign no longer tells us which city we are entering or leaving but only that we are doing it. The signal, which could be that of any other Italian city or town, is no longer the symbol of the city but of the opening of this city to the world.
With Fuali we want to provoke in locals and visitors the experience of disorientation, to rethink the idea of limits and reconsider belonging to the social context. Before even questioning the geographic and political one.

Fuali is a word used by certain ethnic groups in Burkina Faso, it is a word that indicates the savannah: that which has never been explored and exploited by man. Fuali has no defined limits, it moves according to visibility: at night, Fuali comes to touch the houses of the village.