D’altronde, siamo di qui by Nidhal Chamekh (Dahmani, 1985) is the fifth site-specific installation in the agorà of the MUDEC and will be presented on 3 December, introducing the process of reorganising and expanding the museum’s Permanent Collection.
Chamekh invades the space of the agorà by using the windows as a large screen hosting black-and-white compositions made up of drawings, sketches, photographs, transfers.
The images mix objects and artworks from the collections of the MUDEC and the Museo del Risorgimento di Milano, colonial-era photographs from Italian archives and documentation concerning contemporary stories of exile, in order to address in a new key the theme of colonialism by the Western world, particularly in Africa.
The title draws on the manifesto D’ailleurs nous sommes d’ici, created in 2009 by Sébastien Marchal in support of the rights of immigrant workers and later adopted by antiracist collectives and social movements.