"Following the Fish", inaugurated last May, works on urban planning, workspaces, and housing from the African diaspora that also reaches Catalonia and seeks to identify alternative architectures to the hegemonic ones based on the
santero market and the results of
The Reparation Atelier.
The installation that takes shape in Venice with a genuinely
Mantera image, simple, cheap, and easy to assemble, turns the warehouse of the old Cantieri Cucchini into a Street Market in constant transformation. Nine blankets, support, and image of the exhibition are arranged floating on the ground showing the contents of the journey made by migrants.
Following the Fish shows an extremely realistic and critical narrative embodied in the blankets that show the condemnation and refuge of migrants when they arrive in Europe. The narrative is complemented by panels that expand its content, including new contributions, references, and comments through drawings, writings, and images that encourage the visitor to generate an exchange of ideas and debates.
"Following the Fish" by Institut Ramon Llul and Leve Productora. Photograph by Flavio Coddou.
The Reparation Atelier vindicates, seeks, and imagines, possible futures that put an end to this situation, through the help of citizens and institutional services.
The aim is to give shape to the resulting ideas to solve different problems:
Ceebu Jeen (traditional Senegalese stew) proposes collective kitchens as an alternative to the current soup kitchens, which guarantee open access to everyone where to enjoy gastronomy and proximity products.
Teranga (a concept that represents the hospitality and generosity of the country) presents housing solutions in open spaces, to rethink the types of cohousing, and in
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Sutura (a traditional Senegalese sewing technique characterized by its high craft quality), the students propose the conversion of empty locals on the ground floors of buildings as catalysts for transformative social uses for rest, storage, a meeting point, or prayer).
"The project curated by Leve and from the perspective of Top Manta challenges us and questions the dominant paradigms, highlighting the valuable knowledge of their experience as a migrant collective and raising new questions about architecture and urban space".
Pere Almeda, director of the Institut Ramon Llull.
