photos and videos by Mauro Sambo
Opening: Saturday 15 September from 6pm.
A fascinating and intense work of the Venetian artist dedicated to memory and affections.
The exhibit continues until Sunday 7 October 2007 with free admission:
Monday to Friday 3pm-11pm;
Saturday and Sunday 11m-11pm.
Giudecca795, Fondamenta S.Biagio, Venezia
ACTV boat lines 41, 42 or 82, boat stop Palanca
(a few meters from Molino Stucky - Hilton Hotel)
Tel (+39) 3408798327 - website www.giudecca795.com
"My Father. My Job. My Life" is a series of works dedicated to my father who died at the age of 53 in 1974. It is a work about memory, a reconstructed memory. The pictures I used for this first part of the series portray my father at a very young age (before I was not born). The photo used in these two works serves as a kind of final documentation; a short time later, my father left for Africa and was imprisoned by the English who sent him to a work camp in Wales, which is why the title is in English. He returned to Venice six years later.
The installations were done at the Arsenale di Venezia, and water is the dominating element.
Before becoming a gondolier, my father was a professional fisherman; to him, the sea was a
familiar habitat, and his daily contact created a symbiosis with the water.
This whole work is about memory, but it is about nostalgia and homesickness, in particular -- the sorrow that comes from no longer feeling close to someone even though you continue to frequent the same sites, the "same water" (may Heraclitus forgive me) which that person used to visit.
“The Long Hello” is a work in memory of my mother, who died recently.