Sobre este mar, todas la sivdades son la misma sivdad.
Anonymous, 1569—————-
We asked young people from eight cities on the Mediterranean shore – Beirut, Alexandria, Tangiers, Barcelona, Marseilles, Naples Athens and Istanbul – if this four centuries old phrase still holds true.
We have invited them to define their relationship with their urban landscape, thinking about it as a social environment where the relationship between citizen and governing body comes to life. There is a photographic portrait and an extract of the interview with the sitter. Comparing each statement, we have tried to understand the obstacles and problems these young people encounter in their journey towards personal fulfilment. Rather than forming a neat jigsaw puzzle, the interviewees’ answers resemble the Domino, the Chinese game of similarities and differences built as a method of divination, of prediction, of a future that, now more than ever, is uncertain and engaging at the same time.