Via Padova, so much maligned by the media, is also highly interesting from an anthropological and urbanistic perspective. It is a boundary line between the city center and the outskirts, as well as a major route connecting Milan to neighboring towns. Despite the media portraying it as a high-risk area, it is home to long-established educational institutions—such as the Casa del Sole in Parco Trotter—and ethnic dance schools, Neapolitan pastry shops, North African bakeries, Norcia delicatessens, and Islamic butchers, a bowling alley and a mosque, Chinese discount stores and cult shops, prestigious real estate developments, and old apartment buildings overlooking courtyards that resemble souks. Nearly every dialect of Italy is spoken here, along with many languages from around the world. It is a territory rich in suggestions and diverse wisdoms, which, if properly understood and valued, could constitute an extraordinary resource.
With this video, Assab One intends once again to engage with the territory in which it operates and from which it has long sought to offer and draw ideas for redemption and reflection. It is with this spirit that, on the occasion of inContemporanea number two, Elena Quarestani invited Marcello Maloberti, who lives and works in the neighborhood, to initiate a project open to future developments. An artist sensitive to these themes, Maloberti knows how to address them with a light, smiling, and respectful language, able to suggest alternative ways of seeing.