Made in transit

Politics and Representation in Adrian Paci, Contemporary Art and the Migration Issue

Abstract

Narratives of place and displacement, and their relationship with the identity making process, occupy nowadays a central position towards the definition of contemporary art. The aim of this article is to analyse the current relationship between economical, social and political conflicts and representational systems in the realm of contemporary art. The work of Adrian Paci, his creative thought and process, question among other issues, the realm of transitional belonging as we can see in projects such as The Column (2013) or Centro di Permanenza Temporanea (2007). These reflections generate a new poetical and sensitive matrix on the debate about conflict in a global era and the edifice of identity. Security has become the sacrament of our time, blessed by the omnipresence of borders that transformed our own skin on a partitioning device, generating latitudes that have become silent, blocking prisons.