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Filippo Berta’s artistic research reveals the social tensions provoked by the relationship between individuals and the relative societies they belong to.

The photographs and the video Gente Comune ponder the phenomenon of physical walls, a geopolitical symbol of the 21st century, which is further strengthened thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, eventually discovering that there are another 70 demarcation lines that cannot be crossed in the world. From 2015 to 2021, the artist crossed Eastern Europe (Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Turkey, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria), to arrive in America (the United States and Mexico), and, lastly, Asia (South Korea), making videos and producing participatory actions involving the inhabitants of the border areas, asking them to count out loud, and in their own language, the sharp points in the barbed wiring. The action, replicated on eight country borders in which hundreds of kilometers of walls interrupt the land, denounces the search for an impossible result: the inability to glimpse an end, a utopian count repeated ad infinitum that expands between space and time, past and future, not allowing for the end of this phenomenon to be predicted. 

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