Por bem a nossa casa vem

POR BEM A NOSSA CASA VEM is a multilingual narrative composition that elaborates upon the practice of highlighting disappearances, a cultural affair mediated with nature inter twining languages and meanings of departure and return. The expression “Por Bem a Nossa Casa Vem” means “you are welcome in our house if you come with good intentions.” “Por bem ”literally means “for good”, but in Portuguese, it communicates the sense of something done with good intentions, not something that is “done” well. In these terms, rural areas, ruins, and liminal spaces can suggest opportunities for spatial investigations and analytical languages of discourse within their territory of reference. A fixed image we conserve of a territory transforms itself into a simulacrum, a symbol of behavior and the culture depicting it. Reestablishing the discourse of using a multi-narrative language that is attentive to and aware of the symbolism implied in its formation leads towards retracing the path produced and rediscovering the point, the place of straying. In as much as memory, language plays a crucial role in forming the multilayered trauma compelling territorial identity; beyond time, space, and inheritances.

Niccolò Masini (b. 1989) is an Italian multidisciplinary artist and researcher, whose recent projects revolve around the questioning of migratory, territorialization and deterritorialization processes and their representation in formal and informal archives. The artist has a degree in Animation and Illustration from the European Institute of Design–Milan (2011), a degree in Audiovisual Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Amsterdam (2015) and holds a master’s degree in artistic research and praxis from the DAI/Dutch Art Institute of Arnhem (2021). Niccolò Masini’s work develops in the domains of narrative, a certain form of “hand crafted” work, poetry and anthropology.