Kinga Araya

About a 2 hours long performance with a local historian, Ms. Maria Luisa Tozzi and Casacalenda community. I collected 177 bricks and fragments of the nearby fallen house and painted them in white, red and green oil paints. The number of collected stones corresponds with the number of women (European Jews, prostitutes, and gypses) who were detained in Casacalenda between 1940 and 1943. While I carried each stone from the place of their imprisonment and placed them on the sidewalk, Ms Tozzi pronounced the names of the 177 women. The women were classified as “gente scomoda” (uncomfortable people); their personal documents were taken away and they were not allowed to move freely in the village. During the performance, with the help of the local people (some of them were immigrants), the colored stones were progressively placed up to the point where the women walked during their daily supervised “Uscita Libera” (free walk).