Rä di Martino » Electric Whispers
curated by Maria Rosa Sossai

Electric Whispers examines the importance of the role of gathering and meeting places for young people living in Lebanon during a dramatic period marked by escalating conflicts. Through her travels to Lebanon since 2023 and a fiction film project also shot in Beirut, the artist has delved into the world of young people to study their virtual and physical meeting spaces. Virtual meetings in video games and the creation of avatars and fictional identities are often experienced by younger generations as an escape from complex living conditions, while video games become accessible and safe spaces for socialisation, where the impetuous vitality that accompanies formative years seems to find answers. The places featured in Rä di Martino’s images help with re-emerging from disorientation.
Electric Whispers is a project designed for the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut.