Ius Soli

Ius soli

Chapter one: Vesuvius black zone. Waiting, passing, redemption.

Searching for marks, signs and ruins, clues, remains and signals on the soil, the most important action is to collect: on the surface and in the depths of excavations. Once you are ready to arrange everything, to organize, to interrogate matters, to produce a new material, you move on to the act of condĕre: to found, to create, to compose, to describe, to tell, to bury, to plant, to immerse, to put sheltered. Yous scatter seeds on another land, and they cdesign a constellation before disappearing into the soil.

Ius Soli is an archive of images on the archeology of the present in the so called Red Zone – 25 cities with almost one million of inhabitants- of Mons Vesuvius, the largest active volcano in continental Europe. Ius Sol, is a tool to measure the ability of photography to transform noise into signals. Ius Soli is a collection of (archaeological) fragments intended, despite their intentions and dispositions, to tell stories, willy-nilly.

Blue back papers, rizo prints, etchings, silk screen prints, digital prints, plexiglas, mesh, a zinc plate covered with carborundum, lava stones, waste construction materials, inked tarlatan, trees barks, various organic materials. Signal from noise is a piece composed by Phil St. George from field recordings, an excerpt of the sound installation for Prolegomena per un museo archeologico della Zona Rossa (2020). Lavami col fuocois a piece composed by rumoremuto for Corte Vico II San Michele site specific installation of Ius Soli. (2022)

La terra è viva. La terra è fertile. is a chapter of Ius Soli featured by Seeeds Gallery. Campania Felix Delenda est.. Fertility is one of the fundamental values ​​explaining the density of population on a land doomed to disaster. It’s that same catastrophe that makes the land fertile. The simplest way to visualize the idea of ​​fertility is food. Fruits, vegetables land and then the cuisine. Luigi Cippitelli, a pizza chef who composes his recipes exclusively based on Vesuvian products, constantly repeats the sentence Il Vesuvio vive.