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ROMA PAVILION AT TRIENNALE MILANO OPENING

Great opening of the first Roma Pavilion at the 23rd International Exhibition of Milan Triennale “Emília Rigová: And the One Doesn’t Stir without the Other”. We had an amazing time with Movimento Kethane, Roma and Sinti activists and community members from Italy.
 
The opening included speeches from Dijana Pavlovic, ERIAC Member and President of Movimento Kethane; Emília Rigová (Bári Raklóri), artist; Stefano Boeri, president of Milan Triennale; Sead Kazanxhiu, ERIAC Board Member and a message from undersecretary Benedetto Della Vedova.
 
The small altars were mounted by Dijana Pavlovic; Noèll Maggini, Roma fashion designer and activist; Toni Deragna, Roma activist and singer; Fiorello Miguel Lebbiati, Roma activist and sculptor; and Mykhailo Shpakov, Roma student and activist.
 
Gelem Gelem by Toni Deragna and musical performance by Mihai Florian, Romanian Roma musician.
 
We were also honoured by the presence of Maja Gojković, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Information in the Government of Serbia.
 

Photographs by Davide Mendolini