The exhibition presents 30 color shots of the fragments of the boats that rest in the boat cemetery of Lampedusa, boats that have ferried hundreds of thousands of people to the Italian coasts. It is a metaphorical journey that starts from Homer's Odyssey, from which the six key words of the project are extracted (the journey, the island, the bond, the struggle, the salvation, the return), and arrives at the visual references by Rothko and Klein to tell, simply through shapes and colors, all that is hidden in the eyes of those who leave their land out of hunger, desperation and fear through visual and chromatic associations.
Until the end of the sea is a traveling exhibition that in 2016 successfully visited the cities of Milan, Rome at Palazzo Velli Expò, the Rencontres review in Arles, Carrara, the PAN in Naples, the Paratissima fair in Turin and Fotofever in Paris.
The Milanese photographer Jacopo Di Cera recounts a very topical theme, that of migration, in a new and sensitive way and chooses to do so by dealing with the living material of journeys of hope, boats. The result is a series of high definition images printed directly on pieces of wood taken in part from the boat cemetery in Lampedusa. Wood is the symbolic material of this movement, of this journey.
"It all started a few years ago by observing a report on the landings in the Mediterranean" - says Di Cera - "probably for most people the boats of migrants convey a feeling of death or sadness, in reality I saw great hope in them: in these pieces of wood I felt a beating heart”.
The inauguration will be held on Sunday 14 May at 17 and the opening will be until 6 June also in the evening, until 20.
The project is sponsored by the Municipality of Naples and the Municipality of Lampedusa and carried out in collaboration with Bside, Il Papiro Art, Hart Studio, Bart, Idea Art and More.
Part of the proceeds from sales is donated to Save The Children's "Information and Awareness" and "Minors in Transit" projects.
Jacopo Di Cera
Born in Milan in 1981, Jacopo studied with great international photographers with whom he had the opportunity to experiment and deal with. He exhibits his works in Rome at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere and at Palazzo Valentini with an important project on Jerusalem. In 2010 he won the prestigious fourth place in the National Geographic competition, participated in Italian and international exhibitions and fairs. His photographs are present in galleries in Italy and abroad and are part of important private collections.
