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Spazi Aperti: Annual Inter-Academia Exhibition of Contemporary Art Opens

ROME.- Spazi Aperti : THE VAGABOND CAN’T DRAW proposes a theme centered around the notion of the border, seen as a complicated platform where identities clash or mingle. Territorial borders are symbolic sites of power. They mark the subtle division between inside and outside, consequently determining who is included and who is excluded. Borders, those meandering creases dividing the surface of the earth, are drawn by powers. People inside are manipulated by the same governing powers. Borders are sometimes fluid sites where various identities merge. At the same time, borders are solid demarcations that can be imagined like walls, built by nations as supreme separation from one another. As walls are obstinately still being erected, they are also continuously being torn down. With or without walls, mobility has always been a problematic act. Some people can decide when, where and under what circumstances to move