Competing Projects 2025
Sclavanie - Davide DeganoStudiofaganel
“Sclavanie” tells the story of the rediscovery of a geographic microcosm, a mountainous area on the border between Italy and Slovenia, the author’s place of origin. “Sclavanie” is a term that indicates the Slavic origins of the first populations that inhabited these territories. Friuli Venezia Giulia is the only region in Europe where four official languages are still used in the same territory: Italian, Slovenian, Friulian, and German.
Degano, with an ethnographic gaze, explores this area characterized by emigration and the depopulation of small mountain villages. Degano’s research moves through an active, critical, and conscious re-examination of the “local,” investigating the common memory passed down by the inhabitants who remain in these places. This project aims to be an opportunity to reflect on the values of living and community-making, their transformation, degradation, extinction, but also rediscovery.
