Thursday, March 12 at 6:00 PM in the library at Marabouparken konsthall
The upper gallery on floor 1 will be open extra between 4:00 PM and 6:00 pm for those who want to take the opportunity to see Pays Barbare in connection with the lecture.
12 March 2026 6:00 pm
Conversation about Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi’s cinematic practice
Welcome to an evening about Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi’s Pays Barbare, which is shown in the upper gallery. Martin Grennberger, writer and curator, presents Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi’s cinematic practice.
Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi work with archival material, taken from both known and unknown film archives. Since the 1970s, they have examined the colonialism, fascism, war, population movements and diasporic patterns that permeated much of the 20th century in performance, films and installations. The main material in Pays Barbare (2013) comes from the years 1926 to 1937 and shows the Italian imperialist ravages in Libya and Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia) and the connection to fascism under Il Duce, Benito Mussolini. Through a dissection and thorough processing of the images, historical layers are revealed and shifts in relation to the colonial gaze are intensified. The film shows the barbaric injustices during this phase of Italian fascism and at the same time raises compelling questions in the present.
