24.4.2025, Donnerstag 18:00 Uhr
Wartenau Assembly #24: History, Art and Strategies of Intervention: Boggiano Heirs
Ort:
- Aula Wartenau, HFBK Hamburg
"Boggiano Heirs" is an artist’s book written in the form of a historical essay which interrogates Italy’s pro-slavery past. It focuses on the intangible legacy of Antonio Boggiano, a wealthy merchant from Savona (Italy) who lived in Cuba in the 19th century and owned hundreds of slaves. At the centre of attention is the surname Boggiano, imposed on the slaves and still widespread in the Afro-Cuban community.
Cristiano Berti (Turin, 1967) is an interdisciplinary visual artist, researcher, and teacher based in Jesi (Italy). His most recent research-oriented art projects mainly deal with issues of migration and discrimination, sex work, crime, magic, contentious heritages and, more generally, with the phenomenologies of the past. He teaches at the Academy of Arts of Macerata.