At the Castromediano Museum in Lecce, Alec von Bargen's installation dedicated to the homeless

From Aug. 20 to Sept. 14, the Castromediano Museum in Lecce will become an agora, a stage, a place of sociality by opening its indoor and outdoor spaces (including windows and walls!) to Tempora Contempora #2, the second edition of a Focus on the languages of contemporary art, promoted by AMA- Accademia Mediterranea dell’Attore, under the artistic direction of Franco Ungaro, and the Polo Biblio-Museale di Lecce, directed by Luigi De Luca, together with a rich partnership: the Apulia Region-Culture and Tourism Department, Ministry of Culture, Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, Eu Japan Fest, Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati, Arci Lecce,Associazione Transparent.

Many events presented as national premieres or regional exclusives and many performances created specifically for the spaces of the renovated Castromediano Museum in Lecce.

For the occasion, the photographic installation The Subtle Act of Forgetting and Being Forgotten by New York-based artist Alec Von Bargen was inaugurated, set up on the external perimeter of the Castromediano Museum in Lecce. Thirty diptychs (each 1×3 meters), images of “homeless people” that the artist has photographed around the world. All these characters have in common that they become invisible to society and, little by little, are forgotten even by themselves. A study of color and negative space in which the protagonists, even if only for a brief moment, have a platform on which to tell their story.

The large panels will live in close contact with the rhythms of daily life of citizens and tourists, they will be platforms of thought capable of generating new reflections and good practices also thanks to the efforts of Alec Von Bargen, who acts as a social anthropologist. He captures aesthetic instances that resonate in their relationships with historical, political and social contexts. With a small camera he frames and shoots to create his images, videos, murals and installations.

For all information, you can visit the official website of the Lecce Biblio-museum Pole with AMA - Accademia Mediterranea dell’Attore.

To get to know the artist, you can visit his official website.

In the image, a detail of the installation.

At the Castromediano Museum in Lecce, Alec von Bargen's installation dedicated to the homeless

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