san Paolo stadium

video-installation, 2009
Collaborative work: Nermine El Ansari/Sherif El Azma

“…The evocative polysemy of the symbol, capable of superseding cultural, historical, social and linguistic boundaries, returns to the work of El Azma | El Ansari, who juxtaposes the San Paolo soccer stadium in Naples with its ideal predecessor: the Roman amphitheater in Pompeii. Two symbolic structures reduced to a simulacrum in a work that reflects on the meaning of events and their mythicization, on the temporal collocation and universal projection of a desire to belong to a community, in the past as in the present…”

Text by Eugenio Viola