I'm usually not so interested in installations, but my sight caught this one and I had to go look at it and figure out what happened there. It was so obvious that a story was told, and the longer I looked, the more it became clear to me that something terrible had happened there.
I was sure after a while that a family had gone shipwrecked and no one, except maybe the person who collected these items, survived. I was pretty close to tears, it really touched me and did something with me. Then I picked up the info of the gallery, Blain Southern, and saw that it was even worse. Those were items collected by the artist Sisley Xhafa in Lampedusa, the island where all the refugies arrive from Africa and Middle East, wanting to enter Europe.
In october 2013 a boat carrying over 500 migrants, mostly from Eritrea and Somalia, sank off the coast of Lapedusa. Over 300 people died.
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