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Roma Diffusa

A four day exhibition of Garbage Kids at the Roma Diffusa festival 2023, curated by SOCII_ collective, in Piazza Nardini.


Together with our curators from Socii_ and fellow artists (Kirill Stogni, Gio Zhorzholiani, Ninutsa Shatberashvili) we inhabited a space in the abandoned renaissance Palazzo Nardini giving the chance for locals and tourists to enter a small part of the building that has been closed for many decades.

In addition to showing our work we ran workshops for interested visitors. As per our usual style, all the materials for the workshop were sourced from the streets of Rome. Roman streets and the Tiber river are lined with the platanus trees. Walking around the riverside it was not hard to see similarities with Tbilisi. Since autumn is the time of the year when the city government prunes trees, we were lucky to collect fresh and beautiful materials for the workshops, leftover branches that would otherwise be just shredded for mulch. Dragging large logs and branches through the streets of Rome was a hot and tiresome and absolutely fantastic way of sourcing materials, a sort of performance that is part of our work to find wood and other materials for our carpentry work.

With our participants we taught how to build benches with basic joinery, carve spoons and chess pieces and in general taught how to work with wood and the characteristics of the material.


Participating on the exhibition was supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.



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