From State To State, The physical archive, 2006-2022
From State To State, Detail physical archive, CRATE #1 (2006-2009)
From State To State, Selected custom archival folder (2010)
From State To State, Selected custom archival folder (2013)
Digital archive in www.fromstatetostate.com
From State To State
Mobile archive
Ticket collection (more than 3000 tickets), metal frames, archival folders, wooden crates and website
Crate dimensions 110 x 82 x 52 cm each
On-going (2006-2022)
CSAC Parma Permanent Collection
Supported by Mondriaan Fonds
PAC2021 Award promoted by DGCC of the Italian Ministry of Culture
I have been collecting tickets of all my trips for over 17 years. Plane, bus, tram, metro, taxi, train, boat, ship, van, car, bike, wander. Whilst being the recollection of nomadic movements and dynamic situations of thought in which ideas were conceived and shared with an intellectual community, this archive is the record of all my movements, costs, carbon footprint (CO2 produced), hours invested in traveling and the testimony of how an individual movement could affect a collective environment (both physically and intellectually). As in an obsessive gesture, I started collecting them in 2006 – the first year in which I started conceiving my artistic projects – and they have become parallel notes to my ideas and investigations. From State To State is both the visual testimony of apparent freedom/possibility of movement in between borders and the visualization of the collective experience of constant surveillance and control applied on an individual. From State To State is a mobile archive conceived as a political portrait and it exists both as a digital and as a physical archive installed in the exhibition space.