Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Gianni Motti, IT
Gianni Motti, Liberate Öcalan, 2002 © Manifesta 4/Bernd Bodtländer.
Urban installation at River Main Banks
On an island in the Main River, Italian artist Gianni Motti re-created the prison cell of Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurd leader who had been in prison on the Turkish island of Imrali since 1999. The project not only recalled the Kurd leader and his imprisonment, but also posed general questions concerning human rights and human dignity.