By Jessica Stewart on June 20, 2023

These thought-provoking sculptures represent the countless people who move to a foreign land to begin a new life, full of hope, ambition, and dreams.

Artist Bruno Catalano‘s fragmented sculptures have touched down on the Amalfi Coast. Four of his Travelers are displayed on the waterfront, with the stunning Amalfi landscape filtering through their fractured bodies. As a French artist with Italian origins who was born in Morocco, Catalano feels a strong kinship with these voyagers, who walk with suitcases in hand.

“In my work, I seek movement and the expression of feelings; I make new forms emerge from inertia and manage to smooth them out to give them new life,” shares the artist. “Coming from Morocco, I too have traveled with suitcases full of memories that I represent so often in my works. They contain not only images but also life, my desires: my origins on the move.” […]

“They contain not only images but also life, my desires: my origins on the move.”

The sculptures will remain in place until September 30, 2023.

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