La Spezia, unveiled the monument to the verb "Redamare" by Sabrina D'Alessandro

The public work Redamare by Sabrina D’Alessandro (Milan, 1975) was unveiled yesterday in La Spezia, on the Morin promenade, a work named after the ancient verb “redamare,” which means to love and be loved at the same time. After the great success of the recent exhibition at CAMeC, the first public museum to dedicate an anthological exhibition to her, Sabrina D’Alessandro thus returns to the city with a public work that came out of her “Ufficio Resurrezione Parole Smarrite” (URPS), the ... artistic entity she founded in 2009 with the aim of researching words that are little or not at all used, or obsolete, and bringing them back to the attention of the public transformed into visual and performance art works, books and publishing projects. Among these words is, precisely, “redamare,” a favorite verb rediscovered and declined in different forms by Sabrina D’Alessandro.

The work, placed in front of the waters of the Gulf of La Spezia between two ancient muzzle-loading cannons to promote a content of love between two weapons albeit in disuse, is made of corten steel. “The installation,” the artist explained, “gives new life to a lost word although very useful for life on Earth (and the Sea). Placed on the Morin promenade, it welcomes those arriving and departing from the sea with a simple and powerful message: redamare. An ancient word, unchanged from Latin that means mutual and requited love, whereby one loves and is redeemed. The placement of this word between two cannons that have now lost their original function amplifies its meaning. The weapon is not merely harmless; it becomes a platform to launch a message toward the horizon. Without loving, one cannot be redeemed. Redamare has to do with openness, listening, it contains the miracle of reciprocity. A rare feeling that needs to expand again. We need to put words in our cannons.”

"Sabrina D’Alessandro’s installation on the Morin promenade thus becomes a true monument to the verb "redamare,“ which by edifying it sanctions its rebirth. ”Words die if forgotten,“ D’Alessandro concludes, ”and it is this forgetting that I try to counteract through my work with the Resurrection Office. Having a lost word in our eyes, day after day, can allow it to become part of us again."

The creation and installation of Redamare was made possible thanks to the support of Sanlorenzo S.p.A.: the leading luxury yacht manufacturing company, which this year sponsored the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2022, has long invested in the promotion of contemporary art.

Sabrina D’Alessandro’s works, to which theEncyclopedia Treccani has dedicated several in-depth articles over the years, the last one in 2020, have been exhibited in Italy and abroad, published, among others, by Rizzoli(Il Libro delle Parole Altrimenti Smarrite, 2011 and Accendipensieri, 2021) and the Domenica del Sole24Ore(Dipartimento Parole Imparavolate, 2016-2017), aired by Sky Arte(Divisione Mutoparlante, 2016). Thus the Milanese artist’s many years of research and popularization work has created a new union between art and lexicography, contributing substantially to inspire interest in the topic of rare or endangered words, now increasingly popular in academia, publishing, and the media.

La Spezia, unveiled the monument to the verb "Redamare" by Sabrina D'Alessandro

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