U’ SIGGIARU
In Italian popular culture, the chair maker is the craftsman who takes care of repairing and reupholstering chairs. He takes care of an object, creating an interaction, a common thread that gives life back to those objects which, through wear, lose value and functionality. This ancient mastery is now being lost, due to the advent of mass production and the growing preference for throwing things out rather than repairing them. A broken or damaged object can be repaired or transformed into something else. Taking care of a chair is a productive action for oneself and for society.
NARRATING OBJECTS
Immigration is a social phenomenon that has been present in Italy since the end of the Second World War and is one of the most controversial social issues in the present. One of the driving forces behind the migration of crowds of people are the television images coming from the wealthy West and also captured in remote villages of the Third World. Objects, in a western society, reflect the society itself; in a sense, we are made by our objects and our objects tell who we are, what we do and what we have been through. The project tells, through objects, the stories of four immigrants living in Italy.
