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If you are in Florence or planning a short trip, there is an exhibition definitely worth a visit: Schengen with artists  Délio Jasse, Anna Raimondo, Jebila Okongwu. Only few days left as the three-part exhibition, which opened to the public on July 12th, will close this coming Friday at Villa Romana. exhibition view, Jebila Okongwu,   Banana Sculpture No. 23 , 2016, bronze (on the left), Délio Jasse,   Schengen , 2010, digital print on alu-dibond (on the right). "Schengen  examines the limitations of socio-cultural and political borders through a totemic memorialization of the migration of bodies and goods. Drawing upon transnational identity and the blue water of the Mediterranean as fluid conceptions of legality and humanity the works problematize the values instilled by international agreements whose fallen fruits too often die on the vine. The destabilizing of the environmental impact of fading traditions, the evasion of prescribed images of nationalist...

I am delighted to share this amazing news: Laure Prouvost, French artist based in London, just won the 2013 Turner Prize. The announcement arrived from Derry-Londonderry (Northern Irland). French artist Laure Prouvost poses with her artwork titled Wantee. (Credit: AFP) As I posted before in this blog, the shortlisted artists were: Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shringley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Laure Prouvost (left), Lynette Yiadom-Boake (right) and David Shrigley (centre) in Londonderry Prouvost' installation entitled Wantee is inspired by the artist Kurt Schwitters.  It is a story that mixes fiction and reality telling about a grandfather who was a conceptual artist friend with Schwitters.  The film is shown in a room arranged as for a tea party. In fact the title refers to Schwitters's girlfriend who was used to offering tea to visitors by asking "Want tea?". Laure Prouvost, Wantee 2013 Mixed media, video: 14 minutes Photo © Hydar ...