In response to the theme of the 2024 Biennale Arte "Foreigners Everywhere," Fondazione Marta Czok concludes the Biennale season by hosting the public art project "We All Come from Somewhere" by Marina Moreno, curated by Jacek Ludwig Scarso and featuring Michael Meldru, Jenny Davis, and Edson Burton.

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Supported by Arts Council England (ACE) and originally commissioned by Tate Liverpool in 2019, the project celebrates the human right to movement and migration, and the cultural richness that this entails.

Marina Moreno, an interdisciplinary artist born in Venice and based in Bristol (UK), comes from a family history of migration, with roots in Italy, the UK, Spain, Brazil, France, the United States, Lithuania, and Mongolia. Drawing inspiration from this experience, Marina Moreno was invited by Tate Liverpool, as part of the Tate Exchange program, to create a participatory work where stories of migration and displacement could be shared.

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By bringing back the symbol of the shipyard rope in reference to the port of Liverpool, participants created sculptures reflecting the distance from their original home and the journeys taken in the meantime.

Now the ropes find themselves in Venice, Moreno's point of origin, equally emphasized by the presence of water. The waterways, here as in Liverpool, echo a history of continuous movement caused by various factors: from economic exchange to the need for political refuge, and from imperialism to colonialism. These globally influenced factors have a specific impact on the individual, creating a multitude of personal narratives that collectively reflect the fluidity of what gives us a sense of geographical belonging.

It is these narratives that are shared in "We All Come from Somewhere," where the performative intervention, namely the oral dialogue between participants and the involved artists, becomes the focal point of an artistic experience that takes shape in the created sculptures and in the documentation, through text and video, of what inspires them.

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"I see the collective assembly of our rope sculptures," Marina Moreno recounts, "shaping an installation that creates a borderless surreal landscape, where our journeys come closer to each other, complementing one another." She adds, "these sculptures represent stories of:  

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES

PHYSICAL, PERSONAL, AND SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS

CONNECTION TO OUR ORIGINAL CULTURE

AND THE CULTURE WE CHOOSE TO EMBRACE

EXCHANGE OF IDEAS

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