Viale Druso 299

Viale Druso 299 is a loop video made out of clips of the bolzano train station. it shows a sunny and calm day. everything seems firm, except for the wind and the arrival of a train. I found this calmness obscenely contrasting with its past history: one of terror, deportation, and torture. I am used to taking the Bologna-Brennero line, as it connects Verona to Bolzano, and every time i take the train i notice the beautiful landscape transforming from pianura padana to the alps. this is a topic that Primo Levi wrote about on his memoir about his deportation to Auschwitz. places don’t seem to remember where human tragedies took place.

The clips were projected onto a white bedsheet hung in the student dorm terrace, in viale druso 299.