ilMotorediRicerca is a collective founded in 2008 by Nico Angiuli, Roberto dell’Orco, Matteo Fraterno and Michele Loiacono. Valentina Vetturi was part of the collective in its first project. Like a search engine, but physical rather than virtual, it has explored marginal territories of the contemporary, reinterpreting collective memories and imaginaries.

2011 · BariChe pesci prendereA temporarily closed fish shop was reused to gather the stories of people with a fish name as a surname. 2009 · TiranaOda, non riesco ad essere infeliceAn installation at the national theatre of Tirana, Albania, that turns a disused place in the theatre’s courtyard into an open and welcoming public space. 2009 · Pelion, GreeceAδερφια-FratelliA collective research project and video performance on the railway built in Greece by Evaristo de Chirico (father of Alberto Savinio and Giorgio de Chirico). 2008 · TurinAlbania 1e1000An Italian-Albanian magazine based in Turin, developed through an exploratory journey in southern Albania. 2009 · TarantoOtnarat. Taranto a futuro inversoA short film exploring the present of the city of Taranto and an imaginary future scenario hidden beneath the sculpture in Piazza Fontana. 2013 · TurinIl Sogno di Francesco CirioThe tomatoes sold at the Porta Palazzo market bear, laser-engraved, the words of Francesco Cirio, a pioneer of canned food. 2011 · BerlinStoria di uno che andò via per cercare la pauraA collective performance on a full-moon night in the Sankt Matthaeus cemetery. 2014 · LecceGiardino RadicaleInside the Borgo San Nicola prison, detainees and a group of designers and artists collectively transform the common spaces of their section.

Each project starts from a specific place and from a dialogue with the people involved: the ideas realised are the fruit of this exchange. The collective formed in Puglia and imagined this land as a platform stretching out into the sea towards Greece and the Balkans.

This site is the archive of the projects carried out by the group, from 2008 to 2014.