ZimmerFrei's LUMI Explores Identity in Bologna Video Installation

The collective ZimmerFrei (Massimo Carozzi, Anna de Manincor, Anna Rispoli) presents LUMI, a new video installation produced by ON with support from the Italian Council 2019 project of the Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and for Tourism. Curated by Martina Angelotti, the work will be shown at Palazzo Vizzani in Bologna from October 6 to 18, 2020, in the same rooms where it was filmed. LUMI is a staged documentary that reflects on the concept of identity, drawing from sociological and anthropological studies and inspired by real people encountered during the collective's documentary travels. For the first time, ZimmerFrei employs fiction and professional actors to create three distinct emotional stories set within a historic palace that once housed Cardinal Lambertini, later Pope Benedict XIV of the Enlightenment era. The work argues that identity is no longer a fixed definition but a need for recognition, a weave of similarities and differences.