An artist’s edition of 30 embroidered caps, based on a tourist hat owned and worn by the artist. Each cap is accompanied by a signed and numbered zine compiling texts collected by the artist.
Povera is an artistic and literary exploration of a simple idea, famously articulated by Dante in Canto VI of Purgatorio: “Ah, servile Italy, hostel of grief, ship without a pilot in a mighty storm, no queen of provinces, but a brothel!”
Nearly seven centuries later, the Italian singer Franco Battiato voiced a similar lament, this time through the prism of political corruption: “Poor country, crushed by the abuses of power of vile people who know no shame.”
Andrea Aversa is an Italian visual artist based between Paris and Milan. His practice seeks to create the conditions in which objects, images and materials produce and reveal unexpected relations across time, place and cultural contexts. His practice spans sculpture, installation, lecture-performance, moving image and publications.
