Monte di Pietà

Daniele Molajoli

Based on 200 testimonies, the installation Monte di Pietà is an attempt to visualize the pain associated with the consequences of injustice. The space is presented as a sanctuary of sorrows; the objects installed there, collected by director Lorraine de Sagazan during her residency in Rome, are all associated with the memory of a wrong suffered at the hands of the people encountered. The installation is activated by a performance combining improvisation and the telling of stories about these objects, written by Laura Vazquez.

Press reviews

Anouk Maugein confides that their owners couldn’t bring themselves to throw them away. It’s as if they were the silent evidence of their experiences, the motive for their sorrows.
Exposed, they finally escape them, passing
into a level of mediatized reality, which has the virtue of a relief, a liberation, who knows.

Jean-Marie Durand, Les Inrockuptibles

By giving words to these exhibits, the brief, incisive performance makes us aware of the emotional charge we place on objects. These objects, insignificant in our eyes, are for all the victims who took part in the project, the catalyst of all their suffering. It’s a powerful gesture that can be seen, heard and felt.

Amélie Blaustein-Niddam, Cult.news

These objects contain the social inequalities that govern the way we dispense justice, like two-way mirrors showing what we project onto them. Anything but alienating, as courtrooms can be, this place restores a form of empathy towards victims. It puts them at the center of everything, offering a collective catharsis that may well offer an alternative to punishment.

Candice Fleurance, Sceneweb

Interview of Lorraine de Sagazan by Quentin Lafay

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