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EPHEMERA
Bologna: Museo per la Memoria di Ustica, 2007
21 x 10cm, 8pp (single folded sheet). The exhibition guide for Boltanski's emotive memorial for the 81 victims of the 1980 air crash of an Air Itavia flight. The installation is poignant - the reconstructed airplane is surrounded by 81 large light bulbs hanging from the ceiling - the lights glow and then dim in turn. The items and clothing found at the site are also situated in the installation but hidden from view in black boxes. Around the outside of the walk there are black mirrors from behind which are whispered voices - the recordings use men, women and children to have phrases such as "Mother will you hold my hand?" which are disturbing. This is more than art - it is raw, visceral and terrifying while solemn and respectful.
The pamphlet displays three colour images of the installation and a text in Italian. VG+.
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