In 2020, in collaboration with Open Arms, Boccini created Vessel Light, an installation composed of light panels arranged to form a cargo ship carrying “modules” with no distinction between goods and people. Selected for the Faenza 2020 prize, the work is not completed without the interaction of the public, who passing by it activates the sounds and light patterns of which it is composed. What can be heard are voices, cries, recorded during a rescue at sea. And so the viewer witnesses the tragedy that takes place in the dark, where a light comes on to remind the world of these crimes against humanity, so that no one can say they have not seen. With Vessel Light, the artist espouses the concept of a “vessel,” and lets the work travel and land in Galleries and Museums around the world.
Curator D.ssa
Claudia Bottini
Landfall:
– 61 Faenza Prize, International Museum of Ceramic in Faenza, 2020
– Deruta Ceramic Museum. Maggio 2021
– Scuderie Aldobrandini, Museum Tuscolano. Art Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ceramic, Tarquinia. Maggio 2022