Moderated by Elisa Dossi, RAI News 24
The word "border" immediately evokes a black line that separates two states. However, sometimes it's necessary to expand this idea: in southern Italy, for example, there is Sicily with all its archipelagos, which serve as our border with the African continent. Southern Italy is not only one of our frontiers but also the southern border of the European Union, along with Spain and Greece. This fact, seemingly inconvenient, could instead be a source of great strength for our entire country.
Geopolitical maps serve this purpose: to provide orientation that is not only geographical, restoring awareness of one’s position in the world.
Eight large-format maps, projected during the meeting and displayed in the spaces of the Civic Library of Rovereto, for an exhibition that invites us to remember how cartography is a construction and not just a mere representation of meanings. Thus, to invert the gaze is to subvert the imaginary: Sicily becomes a point of observation from which to re-represent Italy and reconsider the space of the Mediterranean Sea.
