Suddenly, 2025

Marble, stone, rope, stainless steel bands.
28.5 x 13 x 19 cm, 12 x 15 x 13, 20 x 15 x 17

The Rione Terra, an ancient neighborhood that has seen the passage of centuries of history and the stratification of peoples who have dominated and left indelible traces, is a symbol of continuity and change. Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Lombards, Normans, Angevins, Aragonese and Spanish built on the foundations of the vanquished, giving shape to a history of coexistence, struggles and transformations. But the real pain for the community of the Rione Terra came on March 2, 1970, when a dramatic event, bradyseism, forced the evacuation of the neighborhood, breaking bonds and certainties that had taken root in the hearts and memories of the inhabitants.

This evacuation, sudden and without warning: it is an emotional, social and psychological event that has transformed the daily life of the inhabitants into a void, into an absence that becomes silence. The emptied houses, the deserted streets, the memories left behind have given life to a new landscape. The suitcase is the visible sign of a loss, but also of a resistance, of a force that manages to preserve memory and transmit it over time. Every object stored, every fragment of life collected and closed in it, becomes a tangible testimony of the resistance of memory against oblivion. The stone that composed the Rione Terra becomes a metaphor for this forced move, witness to a past that, despite the difficulties, remains imprinted in the heart and mind.