Giovanni Gaggia's Ustica Massacre Project at Museo Riso

At Museo Riso in Palermo, the exhibition "Quello che doveva accadere. Pratica poetica politica" presents over a decade of Giovanni Gaggia's work on the Ustica massacre. Curated by Desirée Maida, the show includes a workshop with students from Liceo Classico Vittorio Emanuele II, who contributed to the installation. Gaggia's project began in 2010 with drawings titled "Sanguinis Suavitas" at the Museo per la Memoria di Ustica in Bologna. It evolved into the book "Inventarium" (2016), a tapestry with the phrase "Quello che doveva accadere" suggested by Daria Bonfietti, and a Braille version at Museo Tattile Statale Omero in Ancona. The exhibition emphasizes embroidery as a metaphor for healing. The workshop, part of the PCTO program, engaged students in political action to preserve the memory of the June 27, 1980, tragedy that killed 81 people. The case was dismissed in 1999 with a "no case to answer" ruling.