Multiethnic Naples and Campania through the photographs by Eduardo Castaldo on display at Castel dell'Ovo
Until Thursday 13 November 2014 it will be possible to visit an interesting photographic exhibition in the Hall of the Prisons of Castel dell'Ovo, which focuses on cultural and social phenomenon of immigration in Naples and Campania.
Permanence. Images of a multiethnic Campania is the photographic exhibition was curated and created within the YALLA Regional Service of Cultural Mediation, an initiative financed by the Campania Region and managed by Cidis Onlus in partnership with Gesco, through the Dedalus Social Cooperative, with the patronage of the Municipality of Naples.
Author of the intense and exciting shots on the world of immigration is Eduardo Castaldo, one of the most important Italian independent photographers who lived for some years in the Middle East, between Jerusalem and Cairo where he made reports on the Arab-Palestinian conflict and the Arab Spring. He has won some awards such as a World Press Photo 2012, and his services have been published in important international magazines such as Le Monde, Time, L'Espresso and many others.
The photographic exhibition set up in the Sala delle Carceri of Castel dell'Ovo allows the visitor an immersion in the social and cultural life of immigrants in Campania, seeing, for the first time, the different contexts in which Arabs, Indians, Africans, Chinese, Russians and Ukrainians interact with our daily reality, where unfortunately they are still very often considered invisible.
The exhibition Stays aims to breaking prejudices and stereotypes belonging to many on the fate of immigrants in our country, going to show visitors a rich, dynamic and constantly evolving reality where, gradually, these people coming from afar to find a better destiny, are increasingly welcomed and integrated by our population. A fascinating one emerges mixture of languages, cultures, habits, traditions which leave significant traces in our territory, going so far as to modify its original identity.
The photographic images are divided into two paths. A series of shots conveys the few gestures of interaction that occur with us, the “Role” in which immigrants are often relegated to our country: that of temporary workers, struggling with humble occupations that now belong to their stay in our cities, in the collective imagination of each of us. The "vu cumprà" that sells umbrellas, the one that sells necklaces and bracelets, the one that walks for miles on our beaches under the sun to sell costumes and sarongs, with the sole purpose of earning a living, and being able to make it to the end of the day .
Another series of photographs, on the contrary, investigates the ways in which so many immigrants of different nationalities they have managed to integrate completely into our society and interacting with the citizens of Campania through working relationships, friendship, love and sharing of lives and spaces. Some of them have managed to create here a new life and a new generation of future citizens who in the future will enrich even more our territory of interculturality.
Information on the exhibition Stays
When: until November 13 2014
Entrance: price quotation
Where: Castel dell'Ovo, Hall of the Prisons
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