Girolamo Marri   //   The Graft

The Graft (In collaboration with Daniele Mattioli) The process undergone by the transnational migrant, of settling in a new environment, is made somehow more complex nowadays by global communication, which allows one to linger in between different cultures without ever making precise choices. This prolonged transition often gives birth to a sort of schizophrenia, a state of incoherence where one tries to absorb the local culture and customs, but at the same time refuses to give up his or her ancestral conduct, often ending up in a hybrid condition, unsatisfied and uncomfortable both with the country of origin and that of election. Bitter, tasteless or pretentious, like the fruit of an unsuccessful graft.