In Nova Gorica and Gorizia, from May 31st to June 4th, the works of Valentina Toccaceli and Archivio Swag
The artist Valentina Toccaceli from San Marino and the Archivio Swag group, composed mainly of students from the University of the Republic of San Marino, will represent the Titano at the next edition of Mediterranea20 – Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean. The event will take place from May 31st to June 4th in Nova Gorica and Gorizia, European Capital of Culture 2025.
Seven Sammarinese productions were nominated, created by seventeen artists aged between 18 and 34, among which the international curators Misal Adnan Yildiz and Tia Cicek have chosen two works that fall within the theme proposed for the event: borderless, that is, without borders.
Archivio Swag, selected for the University of San Marino, presented the installation “Spazio pieno wa”: a screen will show a series of texts extracted thanks to a specific technology starting from a database of audio files, transcribed first in full, then in an increasingly reduced form until a single word, initially identified. The progressive subtraction will bring out the importance of the context and its boundaries for the understanding of the messages, as well as the parallel loss of the original meaning. Four authors: Steve Ehanire and Gregorio Vannucchi are enrolled in the degree course in Design at the University of San Marino, Daniele Cardelli in the three-year program in Communication and Digital Media. Together with them, the San Marino economist Giulia Brocanelli.
Valentina Toccaceli, selected for the Cultural Institutes, presented “Water station – decoding mediatic communities”: it is a video created on the basis of research, carried out on the Titan thanks to an antenna and a portable screen, in which she will record the radio and television signals present in the territory. “The continuous transmission between Italy and San Marino – she explains – becomes a metaphor for the permeability of identities. If on the one hand the media strengthen regional peculiarities, on the other they favor a cultural contamination that transforms the communities themselves. Thus the mapping of reception will reveal not only the path of the television waves, but also the dynamics in which identities intertwine, evolve and redefine themselves, promoting a vision of community no longer tied to a static concept of border”. Toccaceli graduated in Design at the University of San Marino, during her educational path also the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, in Milan. He has already represented the Titan at the fifth International Art Biennial of Andorra, “L'andart 23”.
The event that will take place next May is organized by an international network that includes San Marino among its founding members. The Titano has participated in the event since 1992 through the work of the Cultural Institutes (Performing Arts and State Museums), since 2016 in collaboration with the University of San Marino. Among the objectives, the valorization and support of young artists on an international level.
The works by Toccaceli and Archivio Swag will be part of a larger selection of projects from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Montenegro, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium and Austria.