Binta Diaw
It Is Not Wrong To Go Back and Take Something You Forgot
Il titolo del progetto si riferisce al simbolo sankofa, attribuito agli akan dell’africa occidentale, e metaforicamente significa tornare alle radici per andare avanti. È la chiave di lettura del percorso scultoreo che inizia sulla riva del bormida e prosegue fino al castello
Binta Diaw, It Is Not Wrong To Go Back and Take Something You Forgot, 2021, Monastero Bormida (AT), Piemonte. Ph. Agnese Bedini
Binta Diaw (Milan, 1995) is an Italian artist of Senegalese heritage and she creates installations on social phenomena such as migration, contemporary and colonial narratives, anthropological and social aspects in the European context, the relationship of the body with nature and the complexity of her identity, often using natural and symbolic materials. In 2020, she won the Bourse arts plastiques de la Ville de Grenoble; and in 2019, she participated in the exhibition Soil Is An Inscribed Body. On Sovereignty and Agropoietics, at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin.
Monastero Bormida is a Piedmont village of 932 residents in the province of Asti, which is 38km away. Founded by a group of Benedictine monks around 1050, today the village is still home to its fourteenth-century castle, the tower and the square which the church of Santa Giulia overlooks. The Romanesque stone bridge withstood eight centuries of flooding. In 1881, Augusto Monti, a professor of Italian and Latin whose students included Cesare Pavese, Giulio Einaudi, and Leone Ginzburg, was born there.