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From: PRESS RELEASE Category: Art Date: 26 June 2009 Time: 06:07 AM Review: The project Trivignano Dreams by PERSISTERS has been presented at Krossing, collateral event of the 53rd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, in the historical spaces of Forte Marghera, curated by Andrea Bonifacio. Trivignano Dreams investigates the most stereotyped aspects of the appearance. Codifying the image of a landscape means assigning a mental space to it, but the east cannot exist if there is no center. Offer the absence of what is clearly recognisable means to contemplate its presence: this consideration became the basis for this project. Trivignano is a small country village very close to Slovenia. With the recent fall of the border between Italy and Slovenia, all this region, from being the extreme marginal land, suddenly "become", in everyone's perception, the main door towards the Balkans. PERSISTERS realized a series of site-specific performances inside Trivignano, to trace the paths of the perfect holiday, following the map of mind landscapes of the western world. In this manner a combination of beach and mountain resort town was born, complete with an international airport, attractions such as theatres, a trendy and eventful night life, a luxury lodge safari, ans also places dedicated to well-being such as the Spa. With all these images they created holiday packages and other tourist promotional material that, together with a plastic model (by Mauro Cadeddu) promote the place that doesn’t exhist inside a Travel Agency. All the applications received by the website www.trivignanodreams.com (by Andrea Sorrentino) will become part of the project. PERSISTERS is an artistic duo born in 2008 and composed by the sisters Isabella and Tiziana Pers. In the last year it partecipated at SpilimbergoFotografia08, by CRAF Center of Research and Archiviation of Photography and at N.Est, Project Room MADRE Museum of Naples. PERSISTERS unveils the mechanisms of recognition of the images already gained and consigned to the collective memory. It upsets clichè, status symbols and platitudes using their same language and suspending in a far-out space the relative preconceptions. Krossing takes place in the extraordinary complex of Forte Marghera (Venezia Mestre), and will be open until the 15th of October, 10 am-18 pm, closed on Monday. thanks to: All the performers ETRARTE www.trivignanodreams.com www.labiennale.org/it/arte/mostra/it/76894.4.html www.fortemarghera.org www.pers.it