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“Turn On” Adrian Paci Adrian Paci’s film is a miniature on the topic of unemployment, and the insistence on visibility. The camera portrays a series of middle-aged men. Then it goes black. Thereupon, each of the men turns on an electrical generator and brings himself into the picture with a light bulb, thus getting back into events. The tracking shot extends the view to show a large outside staircase. It is a public place where people wait to see if anyone comes by to offer work. Filmed at night and with light bulbs in their hands, the men seem like glowing points of light or stars. Paci produced this film image, which can almost be described as poetic, in the Albanian town of Shokoda where he was born. Like many others, Paci migrated to Italy in 1997 during the civil war in Albania, which was caused by a financial crisis. He currently lives in Milan and his artistic works – videos, paintings, installations, photography – revolve around living conditions under conditions of social inequality and migration. It is precisely Albania, as a country on the edge of Europe, that he compares to the EU. For the fact that Albania is one of the largest countries of emigration, has effects on the EU. He brings the people back into a public awareness but making a theme of the question of visibility. Since although there is a great artistic and documentary tradition of work and the depiction of work, there is none of unemployment. Paci stages an image for insistence: people who claim their right to be perceived, despite miserable economic conditions. Artist, born 1969, lives and works in Milan. |
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