For one year Matera will be the door to Europe, and also its mirror. The project Matera Open City is an experiment to understand how the City, and therefore Europe, is truly 'open'.

In the main square of the City a line is drawn that divides it into two parts.

In the following days the separation becomes material, growing to become an insurmountable limit, a wall that represents the contradictions in which we live: on the one hand a hyper-connected city, on the other a reality marked by separation and inequality.

A show constructed as episodes that develops over a week.

The City is involved in a dystopian provocation, with the aim of building, over time, new utopian visions.

The goal is to light a fire on the issues of diversity, construction of barriers, the exercise of power, but also accessibility, inclusion, the demolition and overcoming of borders.

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Matera celebrates European Culture as new walls are erected to defend old borders, from the humanitarian corridor in the Balkans, to the new wall between Mexico and the U.S.A.