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Now more than ever, artists, curators, gallery owners and cultural operators in general, have to change register. It’s over (even if not everyone has understood). The era of the contemporary art LIONS, the white cubes, the VIP entrances to contemporary art fairs, the astronomical prices, the aesthetics for aesthetics, the participation aimed at membership. In this era of widespread atrocities, continued human rights violations, war, terrorism, beheadings, journeys of hope and loss of life, each of us has been “sullied.” We are constantly learning of tragedies in the news and metabolize everything, continuing to eat as if the information we receive is fiction. This size of global suffering unfortunately does not preclude the existence of local malaise, created, on the one hand, from marginalization, poverty and ignorance but also from arrogance, cronyism and waste. Not only waste of economic resources, but also of talents and territories, without identity and future. Vlady has understood this moment; he has accepted the challenge and has taken his responsibilities. He challenges the established order, complains, reflects, opens his eyes, turns to reality, moves his sense of perception, and puts you in the conditions to make you question things. In his artistic research he doesn’t hold back from territorial militancy and doesn’t ever shy away from the next challenge. He movies in the forgotten provinces or abandoned peripheries, in the middle of people, in small resilient communities, in order to bring beauty where it doesn’t exist and where there is no thought about who has been deprived of the ability to produce it. The work presented by Vlady is the result of the exchange between Outdoor Rome and the Cultural Farm Cultural Park in Favara (AG). It deals with our daily borders, taken as physical and mental limits. The large maze is intended as a metaphor of the fixed course, a compulsory freedom, a probation. Free, under the terms and conditions imposed on us. All around, a dozen decontextualized sentences (from computers to walls) allude to the EU and to our contemporary society. The holed out flag is a symbol of revolution. It’s a metaphor for an imperfect Europe—unfinished, permeable, private, outraged. They are not easy offerings, nor answers, but keys to understanding: entrance gate, exit, or an invitation to go further.