Sono tranquillo, altrettanto siatelo voi

begun 2020, exhibited 2025–2026, site-specific installation, device, b&w photography

Sono tranquillo, altrettanto siatelo voi is a project about Ezio Setti, my great-uncle, a political deportee who died at Mauthausen in September 1944. His last letter was written on the train from Bergamo to the camp and thrown from the window. Someone found it and returned it to his family. The installation places a device in the underpass of Rovereto train station. At random intervals, it drops a numbered copy of the letter. The letter falls to the floor or hangs briefly in the air, repeating the accident of its original discovery. A series of black-and-white photographs, taken with a camera from the 1940s, documents the places connected to his life.

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