Ramonika
by Valentina Iaccarino
portfolio shortlisted call 'URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2022', 2022
Category: People and Communities
The Natisone Valleys are a ridged strip of land that joins the Eastern part of Friuli Venezia Giulia to Slovenia. In these borderlands, isolation finds resonance in a communal vibration with nature: a modulated chord in precarious dissonance between immutability and desire for reappropriation. And yet, what prevails in those who still inhabit these valleys is a sense of belonging, often intimate, subterranean and silent. Multiple histories, cultures and traditions are revealed in the different faces of these places. Everything seems to flow far away and then return through people, animals, houses and landscapes, as in one big breath, like the opening and closing of a ‘ramonika’ (accordion, in Benecjano dialect).