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The work is a reinterpretation of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso. By inverting the gender identity of the protagonists, Agredano implements a hypersexualization of the human body and demystifies the scopophilic logic that lies behind the original painting. Furthermore, it is possible to identify an ironic reference to the conjectured homosexuality of Picasso, also […]

Intergenerational memoir structured as a letter from Scego to his niece, Soraya, Cassandra in Mogadiscio recounts the historical turmoil of twentieth-century Somalia through the private affairs of a family. The linguistic component is essential: Scego mixes Italian with the sounds of Somali, in an expressive creolization that stages the compromises of trauma and diaspora. The […]

The protagonist of the monologue is a non-human general who oversees a volcanic island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. His task is to trace missing persons lost at sea, the voices and faces of those who claim the dignity of memory; however, it is an almost impossible feat, since the numbers remain contradictory, […]