LA RADA DI AUGUSTA

"La Rada di Augusta (2019-2020) - the Bay of Augusta - emerges from the increasingly altered remnants of turbo-capitalism, which merge with the remains of a civilisation dating back over two thousand years. On this thirty-kilometre strip of coastline in south-east Sicily, oil refineries have marked the landscape and the lives of its inhabitants for more than seventy years. The water, air and soil are polluted. Cancer and miscarriage rates are alarming. At the height of the oil industry in the 1980s, there were twenty thousand jobs, but now there are just seven thousand. Corruption is rife, as is mistrust of those in authority.

By exploring the impact of the North-South divide and the price of rapid progress on everyday human realities, the 'La Rada di Augusta' series underlines that the relationship between the environment and industry is no longer just a matter of politicians, engineers and pipelines.
Augusta could be anywhere else

FOCALE Association
place du Château 4
1260 Nyon

from 14.06.2024 to 25.08.2024