Presentation of: ‘Mamma perdonami / Mëma më fal’, a project by Genny Petrotta - 28 June 2024 / h 19.00 h, followed by a discussion with the artist and a tasting.

Mamma perdonami / Mëma më fal’ is a poetic re-appropriation of the long-silenced political legacy - after the traumatic events that followed - of the peasant republic constituted in the 1940s in Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily. With a performance and a video installation, Genny Petrotta, together with a group of young people from her hometown, revisits this key episode for understanding the evolution of peasant struggles in Italy and Europe from the post-war period to the present day.

The project is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (12th edition, 2023), which aims to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide.