FESTIVAL MEET AND GREET

In conjunction with the 2024 Filter Photo Festival, join us for a casual meet & greet at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Catch up with friends and colleagues and view the current exhibition at the MoCP, Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare. 

Prospetto a Mare is the latest chapter of Eritrea-born artist Dawit L. Petros’s long-term investigation of the impact of Italian colonialism and its subsequent imprint on the visual cultures, populations and built environments of Africa, Europe and North America. With particular attention to Chicago’s buried links to Italian colonialism, Petros probes the propaganda used to promote Italy’s colonial projects in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Libya, and by extension, the newly formed Italian state; the (aerial) technologies used to dominate occupied countries and simultaneously extol the power of the occupiers; and the imperfect ways in which these histories are inscribed in public and private memory through monuments, storytelling, archives, and photography.