„I am not an inhabitant of Augusta, nor do I live near the sea. Yet, this experience was extremely familiar to me, because it proposes a different way of living the ruins that is similar to the explorations we all did in our childhood.“
„These boats represent how human beings are reduced by standing still. We rust and then sink. Maybe it really represents Augusta.“
„I was fascinated by the contrast between the ephemeral character of the dinghies and the ‚weight‘ of the wrecks. We need new approaches to preserve and remember what are the actually important pieces of our history. A museification of these wrecks would be inappropriate. We need to rethink the monuments and the way we inhabit them.“
„A privileged view of the noxious landscape of the petrochemical pole, symbol of the potential and failures of this territory, this place should become a public monument, a place to live every day the environmental issue.“
„The theme of industrial archaeology is now central throughout Europe. It is enough to see how the Ruhr coal mines have been converted… But even without going far we can look at the projects for the Natural and Anthropic Park of Saline Joniche, near Reggio Calabria, where the wrecks of abandoned industrial plants are in dialogue with natural elements. What has long been considered a disfigurement of the environment can be transformed into a new form of landscape.“
„I used to come to the salt pans when I was a kid, on my scooter. We used to enter them through a subway that allowed us to go over the railway (now it is invaded by vegetation). Here we used to do small motocross races, with jumps and drifts. Somehow I have always been used to living in abandoned places. Maybe that’s why I started to do graffiti, because besides leaving my mark I discovered places where people usually don’t go.“
"Looking at this place, the word 'disaster' comes to mind. It literally represents the 'misalignment from the stars', an inauspicious condition, contrary to the most favourable routes. We ask ourselves: is it possible to interpret it as a starting condition towards a happy drift?"
„Dark Ecologie goes BRRRR“
„The view from here is unique. Augusta rarely offers public spaces from which to observe the petrochemical industry and the port. The city seems to look the other way and hide their existence.“
„Whether we like it or not this place is part of Augusta's identity.“
