It's Time to Go Back To Street

Marinella Senatore

It's Time to Go Back To Street, 2022-2023

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Marinella Senatore uses drawings and collages as ways to reflect and consider. An important theme of her drawings is the question as to how people form alliances of solidarity on the streets, and also how mass gatherings can become manifestations of totalitarian regimes. The group of works It’s Time to Go Back to Street, which Senatore has been working on since 2019, is a constantly growing atlas of pictures. The drawings often show protest marches and meetings: women, workers, people of color, activists, and demonstrating citizens rising up against injustice and repression. In other drawings Senatore explores choreographed marches from the past and present of authoritarian systems. In these mass configurations, people appear as bodies in unison, subjected to total control and discipline. The drawings also include motifs from The School of Narrative Dance. A flowing mass of people can create enormous energy, and it is important to ask how a large number of dancing people on the street and in an urban space can be led so that they really form a community that creates equality, inclusion, and empowerment. (Jürgen Tabor)