iovanni Perillo aims to generate conflicts with oneself, to weaken certainties, stereotypes and rigid expectations, encouraging a dialogue to express one's reflections on the real freedom of one's choices and on the possible influences that they imply. Through a dŽtourner, a displacement, a deviation from alienating cultural mechanisms, aesthetic experimentation can become practical for a transformation towards a different self-awareness.
"Giovanni Perillo establishes a new and important dialogue around ethnicity, displacement and migration. Spanning the arts as well as the social sciencesÑand in particularly psychologyÑPerillo asks us to take a leap of faith. He wants us to leave the comfort of our academic homes and to escape our Òivory towersÓ and consider what displacement means. Establishing his discussion in a project he calls Òthe Aesthetics of Migrations,Ó Perillo pushes boundaries, challenges assumptions."
- Jeffrey H. Cohen, PhD, Professor of Anthropology at Ohio State University, United States