The exhibition Donner à voir, composed of various works and heterogeneous fragments, is conceived as a medium for creating new imaginaries rooted in the everyday, historical archives, and personal micro-stories. Donner à voir is a political act of reimagination, re-narration, and the configuration of new forms. It begins with the figure of G. Staccioli.

Donner à voir is an exhibition, conceived as a medium: an artwork composed by various fragmented elements. It starts from the figure of G. Staccioli.

In the forties, G. Staccioli was in prison due to an unknown crime. He commutated his sentence joining the French Foreign Legion up, in the First Indochina War (1946-1954). No one knows anything about him. It remains: a series of documents secretly conserved in the archive of the foreign Legion in Aubagne; the surname (Staccioli) which Luca Staccioli, after his father, inherited because of some bureaucratic quibbles without being relatives; a photographic roll of film.

The photographic film is erased by the time and the erosion of the sea. The contents are completely unrecognisable. Thus, the disappeared images become a new space to re-narrate and to question the construction dynamics of the identity made by wars, macro-narratives, violence and by patriarchal alienation of the autonomous subjectivities.

There are redrawed historical documents, maquette made of Play-doh that rebuld three-dimensionally historic images of war, toys made of resin, and Studio per un figlio, sculpture in the center of the exhibition, that images the son of History.