MAMT||Museo Mediterraneo dell' Arte, della Musica e delle Tradizioni (EN)

SUSPENDED IDENTITY

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Naples  ||  | 05 June 2025
Iniziative (EN) - MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

On 5 June 2025 at 3.30 p.m., the Museo della Pace presented “Suspended Identity”, the new photographic and video-installation project by journalist Duccio Giordano, a work in support of the Referendum for Citizenship.
A work that gives voice to those who do not yet have it, that tells of the right to be, to be there and to dream, without having to wait for a stamp, a permit or a passport to feel part of the community to which one already belongs. "Identità Sospesa' is a silent but powerful cry against the indefinite wait that many people, born or raised in Italy, experience because of anachronistic citizenship laws.
The event was also a moment of discussion and participation with speeches by institutional representatives, activists, sportsmen, artists and referendum promoters.
The exhibition was inaugurated with greetings from the Mayor of Naples and ANCI President Gaetano Manfredi, President Michele Capasso and the President of the National Citizenship Referendum Committee Riccardo Magi.
Speeches included those by:

  • Alessandra Clemente, project promoter, Naples City Councillor
  • Sarah Meraviglia, project promoter, Naples Citizenship Referendum Committee
  • Duccio Giordano, project author
  • Roberto Fico, former President of the Chamber of Deputies
  • Sandro Ruotolo, MEP, PD
  • Francesca Druetti, National Secretary of Possibile
  • Marilena Grassadonia, National Secretary of Sinistra Italiana Massimo Brancato, CGIL National Development Area Coordinator
  • Marco Sarracino, MP, PD
  • Ettore Rosato, MP and Deputy Secretary of Azione
  • Roberto De Masi, Psi National Directorate
  • Gennaro Migliore, Italia Viva National Directorate
  • Vincenzo Spadafora, former Minister of Sport, President Primavera
  • Luca Trapanese, Councillor for Welfare of the Municipality of Naples
  • Teresa Armato, Councillor for Tourism of the Municipality of Naples
  • Nicola Ricci, Secretary General CGIL Naples - Campania
  • Utibe Josephef, From the right side of history
  • Francesco Dinacci, President PD Naples
  • Laura Marmorale, Mediterranea Saving Humans
  • Vita Convertino, Regional Secretary FILT CGIL CAMPANIA
  • Fabiana Sciarelli, Prof. ssa Orientale University of Naples
  • Davide Cava, poet and performer PhD student Orientale University
  • Bassem Gassoumi, master's student L'Orientale University
  • Jarbas Faustino Canè, sportsman
  • Roxy in The Box, artist
  • Laura Valente, artistic director of the celebrations in Naples 2500
  • Michele Capasso, Secretary General of the "United States of the World" and founder of the Museum of Peace

"Suspended Identity" is not only an artistic project, but a political and cultural act: a collective invitation to recognise the new Italians, to support change, to restore dignity and hope to those who have been living in limbo for too long.