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LOCALES & at Thursday 05 March, 7 pm.

LOCALES is thrilled to invite friends in Rome to a lecture, screening and conversation by and with Palestinian artist Emily Jacir at MACRO, Rome.

The evening will focus on the influence and impact of Italy and in particular of Rome, where Jacir has lived on and off since she was 14 years old, on her practice, excavating two decades of projects and interventions the artist has developed on Italian soil. These include three permanent installations in: Pietrapertosa, Basilicata; Palermo, Sicily and Milan.

Often staging or permanently installing work in public space, the artist has worked with photography, film, sculpture, installation and performance to reflect on collectivity, memory, migration, exclusion/inclusion, visibility/invisibility, and how these are negotiated with the body and in public space.

Following a presentation by Jacir, the artist will be in conversation with Sara Alberani and Chiara Siravo (LOCALES), tracing shared reflections and urgencies around public space and silenced histories. A selection of the artist’s film works will be screened in the MACRO cinema over the course of the evening.

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The assembly of independent European contemporary art spaces, curated by within , the public art programme by

06 - 07 September at Dogliani

“[…] For the land to be tamed, the Italians subjugated not only the organized Libyan resistance but also all bodies carrying ecological cosmologies documented in oral practices and rituals. Erasing bodies means erasing a long lineage and heritage grounded in ancestral oral history and ultimately erasing tangible land and water practices—it did not succeed. Despite the capitalist and consumerist model, oral documentation and practices still resist. Returning to Vishmidt, this is about making holes in the infrastructure and challenging narratives and methodologies, which is very much about decolonial practices reconfiguring agencies and ontologies. […]”

The conversation between Adelita Husni Bey and Shehrazade Mahassini is now online on

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“[…] We are everyone who came before us and we are living in atrocious absurdity. The time that is being put forward in the spaces that we create, is the right time. This is a time that is joyous for us, a time that is generative. Every time we meet up, I feel like I get more ideas, I feel more alive, and that also comes with communing, with who Wael was in his life. […]”

The conversation between Emily Jacir and Michael Rakowitz in now online 🌹 Link in bio

A heartfelt thank you for sharing these words with us.


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