Adrian Paci's Ambitious Multi-Venue Project in Florence Explores Migration and Identity
Adrian Paci (born Scutari, 1969) presents a major multi-venue project in Florence, spanning four locations: Museo Novecento, Le Murate, Fornace Cioni Alderighi in Montelupo Fiorentino, and Ex Fabbrica Tappeti in Pelago. The centerpiece is a new video installation, "Di queste luci si servirà la notte," created for the occasion with a public performance on the Arno River. The work uses water as a metaphor for migration, movement, and human destiny. It is in dialogue with two earlier video installations: "The Column" (2013), which follows a marble block's journey from China to the West, transforming into a classical column through collective labor, and "The Guardians" (2015), set in the cemetery of Scutari, where children wash graves after the end of the dictatorship. Paci's work oscillates between personal and universal dimensions, exploring social, ethnic, and cultural dynamics.
Key facts
- Adrian Paci was born in Scutari in 1969.
- The project spans four venues in Florence and its metropolitan area.
- The new video installation is titled 'Di queste luci si servirà la notte'.
- A public performance on the Arno River was part of the creation of the new work.
- 'The Column' (2013) follows a marble block from China to the West.
- 'The Guardians' (2015) is set in the cemetery of Scutari.
- The project involves Museo Novecento, Le Murate, Fornace Cioni Alderighi, and Ex Fabbrica Tappeti.
- Water is a central metaphor in Paci's work.
Entities
Artists
- Adrian Paci
Institutions
- Museo Novecento
- Le Murate
- Fornace Cioni Alderighi
- Ex Fabbrica Tappeti
- Artribune
Locations
- Florence
- Italy
- Montelupo Fiorentino
- Pelago
- Scutari
- Albania
- Arno River
- China