Mafia Capitale, through the corruption of the government, has control of many illicit procurement including those for support services for homeless and migrants. In this way they get almost complete control of the cooperatives and the reception centers of the Capital and so they can speculate on immigration and job insecurity.
A person at the top of the criminal organization was intercepted in a conversation where he said: " do you know? How much I can earn on immigrants? The drug trafficking allows less gain …”.
This person was also the instigator of the riots in Tor Sapienza, Rome's outskirts, during which were launched stones and bottles at a reception center for asylum seekers, in 2014.
In the same district, there is the museum MAAM - Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz that recounts and values, through art, the story of an ex slaughterhouse factory where, with the help by the group Blocchi Precari Metropolitani, about sixty families have settled in, in 2009.
Metropoliz is a multiethnic and multicultural reality and there live Italians, Peruvians, Romanians, Ukrainians, Moroccans, Rom, etc.
Its inhabitants call this città meticcia (mixed race city).
Giorgio De Finis and Fabrizio Boni create the project Metropoliz Space, an art project that wants to create a chance of redemption for all the inhabitants of Metropoliz, in 2012. The project, over the years, has developed into the MAAMand there its use art to involve residents and visitors in its wonderful diversity.
I've realized Mafia Capitale on a outside wall of Metropoliz and it's a self-financed project, built without permits and sponsors. The project was wanted and curated by Giorgio De Finis e Michela Pierlorenzi.
I was working in the district of Tor Sapienza, near a social reality created from below in response to the lack of a concrete public support for immigrants and homelessand and I was painting on a wall of an ex slaughterhouse factory so I tried to combine everything into one image.
The man represented as a sausage is sliced to make money so I’d try to create a similarity between capitalist and the ex factory’s production.
At the same time I have tried to describe and illustrate the different aspects and meanings that can take the word capital.
First of all Rome, the Italian capital, the city where Mafia Capitale has been free to act thanks to the corruption of public administration, in the last years.
Talk about the concept of capital punishment, then beheaded, the character's sliced from the head, the noblest part of the body. Another reference's the pecuniary capital, infact the body isn’t producing slices of meat but coins. It's the gain that too often becomes more important to the human being and the human capital.