Open call 'Filling The Absence' by Peter Fend and Yona Friedman in Genoa

In Genoa, an international open call titled 'Filling The Absence' was launched as part of a solo exhibition by American artist Peter Fend and Hungarian architect Yona Friedman, hosted and archived by the city. The call invited artists to respond to the physical and conceptual void left by the collapse of the Morandi viaduct (locally known as the 'Cornigliano bridge') in 2018, which devastated the socio-economic fabric of the suburb of Cornigliano. The initiative references Gordon Matta-Clark's legal cutting interventions in the same area during the 1970s. Fend is the founder of the Offices and the Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation, while Friedman was a key figure in the 1960s 'megastructure' architectural movement. The project explores meta-narratives, environmental politics, and urban overpopulation, aiming to fill the absence left by the destroyed infrastructure.