Dawit L. Petros: Spazio Disponibile
On view through May 10, 2020
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, at Harbourfront Centre
Toronto, Ontario
www.thepowerplant.org
Dawit L. Petros presents a new body of work underlining the unexplored links between colonization, migrations and modernism. “Spazio Disponibile” – Italian for ‘Available Space’ – scrutinizes historical gaps in European memory, particularly that of modern Italy. Alluding to vacant advertising sections that appeared in “Rivista Coloniale”, a widely circulated early 20th century magazine and the official organ of the Italian colonial project, the title is also a reference to the colonial gaze that viewed the lands of Africa as ‘available’ space to occupy and exploit.
Image: Dawit L. Petros, Spazio Disponibile, 2020. Installation view: The Power Plant, Toronto, 2020. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
