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From 24 February to 26 March 2023

Roman Villa of Florence

Roman Villa of Florence

Via Senese, 68, Florence

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During the last seven years, Villa Romana has been a central axis of the work of Black History Month Florence. The collaboration that this event represents underlines the positioning of the institution with respect to The Recovery Plan, launching the new season and welcoming the director Elena Agudio.

For the VIII edition of Black History Month Florence, Villa Romana hosts a performance by Muna Mussie and presents two exhibitions dedicated to the artists Jermay Michael Gabriel and Georges Senga. Co-curated by BHMF and Lucrezia Cippitelli, the exhibitions look at the archive as an unstable place of creation, interrogation and mobility. Collective and personal memory, together with ethereal and physical indicators of conditions and conditionings, mark the role of speculation and fabulation in the artistic production of both artists. Drawing from the Bonaventura Salumu archive, with Comment un petit chasseur païen devient Prêtre Catholique, artist Georges Senga presents the latest chapter in a series of works in progress and the accompanying book edited by Lucrezia Cippitelli: reimagining the traces of archive, to reconfigure and re-tell them as a gesture to overcome shifts and absences but also to mediate the distance between personal and collective forms of memory. With David and other feats, artist Jermay Michael Gabriel presents a new body of work in dialogue with David, a pre-existing video installation. By recovering objects that have passed through the black market and ended up in antique fairs, the work is a gesture towards restitution and towards a reconsideration of the colonial violence inherent in the practices of a certain type of collecting.
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Via Senese, 68, Florence, Italy

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monday Closed now
tuesday 14:00 - 18:00
wednesday 14:00 - 18:00
thursday 14:00 - 18:00
friday 14:00 - 18:00
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