ARTIST STATEMENT

Forcella Reigns is an immersive multimedia installation with a raw theatrical profile and the culmination of a 4-year anthropological research study in Forcella, a run-down and often avoided neighborhood in Naples, Southern Italy. There I embedded myself with a group of men who play cards on a corner staircase, Gradini Forcella, everyday. In these dilapidated streets surrounded by the smoke of cigarettes and the smell of espresso, I witnessed the day to day story of these card games while becoming the mute player. 

The installation's title comes from a graffiti tag (Forcella Regna) found on site and refers to the criminal battles in the neighborhood. This world can feel distant from that of these men. Yet, these two realities coincide in Forcella.