Journey into Fragility is the latest project of Italian artist Maria Rebecca Ballestra (www.rebeccaballestra.com), inspired by the The Arenzano Manifesto for Earth and the Human Beings, conceived and created by Massimo Morasso at Arenzano, Italy, in 2001.
The Manifesto consists of twelve statements to constructively reset the issues of the environmental crisis, and it was subscribed to by the world’s most famous poets (from Adonis and Seamus Heaney to Derek Walcott; from Bei Dao to Mario Luzi; from John Ashbery to Andrea Zanzotto, just to name a few).
With Journey into Fragility the artist will develop twelve subprojects (community projects, installations, videos, and site specific projects) in twelve different places around the world, developing an open and constructive dialogue on the environment and the value of living on Earth. Each subproject will involve a scientific partner and a different curator, creating a constructive venture, able to bring new technologies and solutions for the health and benefit of the Earth, independent of the economic and political situation of the host country.
Each subproject will be inspired by one of the twelve statements of the Manifesto. Workshops, discussions, conferences and debates will be created around each topic. The entire event will be documented online at www.journeyintofragility.com
The Journey into Fragility will last approximately one and a half years, and will end in a comprehensive venue in Venice/Italy, to document all of its phases, to discuss the results of activities carried out in various countries, to discover the different points of view on the common resource “Earth,” to debate and to try to find new solutions and opportunities for the future.

The project's sixth stage will take place - after Ghana, Switzerland, Madagascar, Abu Dhabi, China - in Singapour from 27th October to 1st November and it will be curated by Fabio Carnaghi. NEWater - the leading company in Singapour to collect rainwater and to recycle the used water - will be the starting point to reflect on the Arenano Manifesto’s eighth thesis: Respecting local differences and their defining characteristics is compatible with economic development.

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