recounted by Primo Levi in If This is a Man: the prisoners run in front of a Nazi officer who in a few minutes decides their fate, simply by moving the paper handed to them to the right or left. An act of trivial bureaucracy that draws the line between death and survival, to reconcile the inhuman accounts of the camp.

To this gesture – terrible in the ease with which it is carried out – Riniolo has superimposed another gesture, the contemporary gesture of the technological interface of social channels, with the aim of making us feel emotionally the horror of extermination, grafting it onto the digital devices of everyday life.

The performance is preceded and introduced by a talk with the participation of representatives of the Jewish Community, the curators and the artist.

introduces
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi Director of MAXXI Arte

speakers
Ruth Dureghello President of the Jewish Community of Rome

Mario Venezia President Museum of the Shoah Foundation
Francesco Cascino curator
Micol Di Veroli curator
Filippo Riniolo artist

L’opera è stata realizzata grazie al sostegno di Artscapy e Studio33