Milan Holocaust Memorial - Binario 21 _ November 14th, 2018 / January 28th, 2019
curated by Ermanno Tedeschi
IN FILA PER UNO" the site specific work by Daniele Basso
at the Holocaust Memorial in Milan
The Biella artist on show at the exhibition
"Ricordi Futuri 4.0 - what's at the end of the track" by Ermanno Tedeschi
80 years after the promulgation of the racial laws in Italy, we remember what happened, helping us to reflect together on what is happening in the world today.
Binario 21 is not a museum. Rather a relic of a dark moment in the recent history of our civilization. When indifference has made it possible: to deport people to the extermination camps. Facts that weigh like boulders. Thoughts that fill the mind naturally uncomfortable. Thus memory goes beyond remembrance and becomes the consciousness of good and evil. When the personal choice, which is repeated becomes collective, is the only concrete action of the individual to give meaning to their existence.
With these premises the work of Daniele Basso intertwines the indifference with the uneasiness that the subject raises, to delineate a metaphorical symbol of an experience that changes you, as the perception of our reality changes after visiting the Milan Holocaust Memorial.
"IN FILA PER UNO is located at the end of the visit of the Memorial - says Daniele Basso - Central in the corridor away from the tracks, behind the Wall of Names after and the silence of the Pensatoio, it hits you while still in silence you go to the exit. When you seek refuge and relief in the light of the stained glass windows on Piazza Edmond J. Safra, but on the contrary you are violently reflected by the game of mirrors as if you are coming back to the tracks".
Inspired by the words of Senator Liliana Segre, victim of Nazi-fascism, IN FILA PER UNO is the metaphor of Humanity that becomes "neatly in line", before the journey beyond the imaginable, towards the extermination camps. A visible and invisible symbol. Right in the conscience of each of us. Beyond the indifference of time. To always choose responsibly. Because freedom is both a right and a duty.