Dadissuasori (In italian dissuasori=bollards and dadi=dices)
Intervention on broken urban furniture, by Veronika Tzekova La Pigna, Sanremo, Italy 2010
The bollards were initially placed in front of St.Giuseppe Church in La Pigna, Sanremo to prevent cars from passing and parking. At the moment of the intervention they were randomly displaced.
(photo Veronika Tzekova)
I turned them into huge dice thrown on the small square to monument the shifting fortune in the competition between planned urban environment and personalized appropriation of space.
(photo Maggie Lawson)
Strangely some functionary of the church found it blasphemous and painted over the dots (only) of Dadissuasori, making them even more sad and ugly. How far an institution, and even more religious institution, can and should control public space outside its premises?
(photo Veronika Tzekova)
The Dadissuasori were first permanently installed art piece in public space in La Pigna, with the potential to turn a sad destruction sight into landmark. Hopefully the people of La Pigna will claim them back, after all the church functionary used water based paint.
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