That night of February 2023, in front of the beach of Spiar di Cutro, the sea returned to Europe one of its most terrible truths: ninety -four broken lives, including thirty -five children, trapped in the rotten woods of a cadic left by Turkey. To tell that drama, after a year and a half, is the photographic exhibition “Dreams cross the sea”which inaugurates this evening at the Museum of the sea, agriculture and Cariati’s migrations.
Edited by Giuseppe PipitaDirector of the Biseimmanal The Crotonese And the first journalist to arrive at the site of the shipwreck at dawn on February 26, the exhibition collects the shots made in those dramatic hours: desperate rescue, the recovery of the bodies, the screams of the survivors, the deceptive sea “calm off and with very high waves towards the coast”. Then, in the following days, the coffins aligned in the Palamilone di Crotone, the silent arrival of President Sergio Mattarella, the institutional responses and, above all, the moved solidarity of ordinary people, such as the mothers of Cutro who asked for forgiveness for small victims.
«There were shoes, clothes, toys of children who did not make it on the beach – Rites recalls – only their dreams crossed the sea. The bodies, souls stopped in Cutro, Calabria, Europe ».
For Hired Scorpinitidirector of the museum, the exhibition is “a real visual documentary, enriched by thoughts, poems and comments that have transformed Cuotro into the emblem of the infinite drama of migrants”.
The exhibition will remain visited until September 30thinside the Civic museum of the sea, agriculture and migrations of Palazzo Chiriàci. The inauguration will participate the families and the managers of the Centro Sai di Cariatitogether with unaccompanied foreign minors of Sarepta projecthosted in the former seminar adjacent to the museum.
The exhibition fits into the program of Intercultural Festival “look and worlds”now in its second edition, organized by the Museum Management in collaboration with the migrant realities in the Ionian town.
