Raffaella Regina
Projects
These projects are part of an artistic practice developed in public space through actions, interventions, and participatory processes. Although they emerged in different contexts, they all share a common interest: activating forms of collective presence, resignifying everyday places, and opening spaces for relation, listening, and transformation in the city. My work moves between contemporary art, body, territory, and collaboration, understanding public space as a place of conflict, encounter, and possibility.
The experience of MACAO (Milan, 2012 - 2013) constitutes an important reference within this trajectory. The collaboration with this independent centre for arts and culture, conceived as a space for collective production and political and artistic experimentation, marked a fundamental basis in my relationship with collaborative processes, self-organisation, and urban space.
Inside The Cloud (Bilbao, 2017), carried out in collaboration with Artikistas in the context of Gau Irekia, proposed an immersive and participatory experience capable of activating the relationship between body, movement, and collective perception. In the same year, Mens Sana in Corpore Sano, developed by Artikistas for Arteshop Bilbao, explored the relationships between care, health, everyday space, and participation, transforming a commercial place into an artistic device for reflection and encounter.
In Sandë Martínë (Chiaromonte, Italy, 2017), the research shifted towards a rural context, observing shared ways of inhabiting the territory and working on memory, everyday life, and collective presence. In Las Tres Gracias (Bilbao, 2018), the public space action was developed with migrant women from Bilbao La Vieja, articulating presence, storytelling, and direct conversation with passers-by.
Taken together, these projects trace a line of work that continues today in MUJIMA, an artistic research project in public space focused on migration, visibility, care, and the resignification of urban space. Initiated in Zurich and currently developing internationally, MUJIMA works especially with migrant women with children through situated processes, collective actions, and forms of shared presence.
All projects:
The three graces
Bilbao Art District 18th May 2018
Three migrant women from the neighborhood of Bilbao La Vieja in their traditional costumes. A performative route from Plaza Corazón de María in the Bilbao La Vieja neighborhood to Abando, passing through Azkuna Zentroa, Plaza Moyua and Gran Vía. During the tour the three women welcomed the passers-by who approached. They answered the questions that arose spontaneously. People listened to the stories of the three women and their experience as migrants in a neighborhood considered by the others to be a "problematic" neighborhood, even dangerous, streets forbidden to "good" people.
Sandë Martinë
2017 - An Action-Research in Chiaromonte
In the days of research in Chiaromonte we listened to many stories. Family stories, legends, events… all of them private but at the same time shared by the community. These stories, by word of mouth and according to different points of view, were constantly unveiling new details or even contradictions and, little by little, allowed us to get in touch with a common and informal social fabric, made up of places, memories and friendships.
Inside the cloud
Gau Irekia 2017
The action, which took place around the Marzana Dock in the La Vieja neighborhood of Bilbao, had as its central point the participation of the people present at the same dock.
We provide passersby with several sheets of a plastic material that is usually used for construction sites. The light and economical material, together with spotlights with colored lights, created a unique scene in the streets adjacent to the Pier by the passers-by themselves.
