A Message Before Leaving is a socially engaged project. It was realized in collaboration with Jeffery Doughtie, a death row inmate of the maximum security prison in Huntsville, Texas; with the assistance of Massimiliano Ferraina and the support of Washington University and the association 'Hands Off Cain'. The project’s objective was to allow Doughtie, through performative strategies of intervention, to leave his messages around the urban landscapes of European and American cities. I aimed to reflect on the function of the creative process and visual communication operating as riddles capable of disrupting social orders of visibilities to render perceptible aspects of social life which are hidden, invisible, cancelled. To give to Jeffery Doughtie the imaginary possibility of writing on the walls of cities in Europe and USA, and documenting this impossible action as something that really happened, resulted in a contradiction that confused spectators and at the same time encouraged imaginary solutions .
The work has been published both in Italy and UK.
http://www.source.ie/forms/normal_hold/dpict/dpictbackissu00.html
The project was used in 2013 as a model of intervention for the educational course Cred/Ability – Art in Prison Pilot Training developed by Hannah Hull for the University of Education of London.
http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/265/article/think-critical
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