LISTA DEGLI OGGETTU PERSONALI APPARTENUTI AI PASSEGGERI DEL VELO IH870. 2007.

Ustica: Museo per la memoria di Ustica, n.d. (2007)

21 x 14cm, 40pp (mostly printed recto only) plus card covers. Artist’s book created in remembrance of the air disaster when the Itavia Flight 870 crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy. 241 small b/w images of items found in the sea wreckage are displayed and reproduced – much as Boltanski had done with items from dead people. However the recency of the event (which took place in 1980) and the tragedy makes this much more of a memorial event than other Boltanski works although the objective, bland recording of the items remains and hints slightly at the amoral effects of any death. There is a foreword in Italian by Beppe Sebaste. VG+. Hard to find.