I created a piece based on road signs, using double meanings from the architecture and civilian engineering slang, building site and traffic noises, workers' movements...

Terrafrana is the nightmare that each day moves forward more and more, hiding under attractive names foreseeing golden paradises: "The Court of Orange Trees", "The Ancient Malò", "The Sun Gardens". Attacks against our freedom and our rights.

Terrafrana is the devastation of a land, the privatization and the exploitation of common and universal properties, like the earth, the air, the water, nature and silence, just for a few men's profit.

Terrafrana is an absolutely autobiographic reflection; it is the inescapable and continuous transformation of my land, my land as a child and then girl taking a bycicle ride through narrow roads and paths which don't exist anymore, or which break off to give room to the new bypass and to the new residential complex.

The alibi and the patina of this horror is in the architects and engineers' language, in the high-tech, in the concept and in the eco-friendly design.

And finally, Terrafrana is the building site that prepares this future paradise, his damaged flap: the grotesque comedy of sloppy workers at the boss' mercy, the day stunned by the sun and the miserable wages, black as their backs, the mess on the floor like prisoners.

Terrafrana is a trade mark and takes its roots in the Venetian flatland.

Terrafrana is a true work in progress.

Concept, texts, voice and direction by Debora Petrina.

With the participation of Vasco Manea and Walter Pegoraro.

Special thanks to Veniero Rizzardi and Francesca Raineri.