Fragments by Mario Badagliacca at Cork World Book Fest
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Frammenti, an exhibition by Italian photographer Mario Badagliacca, will run for the week of Cork World Book Fest. It focuses on objects taken from asylum seekers and migrants as they arrived on the island of Lampedusa. Mobile phone parts, battered guidebooks, broken compasses and cigarette packets were all taken, and later disposed of, by the police. In documenting this collection of lost belongings, Badagliacca encourages us to reflect on the value of objects and the value of human life. His photographs tell stories of migration, displacement and hope, as they help us to trace the different subjectivities of their owners; their faces, voices, stories and journeys.
Held in collaboration with the Memory research group of the Centre for Advanced Study in Languages and Cultures, University College Cork.
Cork City Libraries
57-61 Grand Parade, Cork WCR-01-T56
Price: Free
OPENING:
27 April-4 May 2019
