Damnatio memoriae is intended as the death of memory.

Hvallo realizes the project Damnatio Memoriae tour with a series of travelling exhibitions, starting from Berlin. The Damnatio memoriae is a sentence that was decreed in ancient Rome in very serious cases, as a result of which every memory (portraits, inscriptions) of the people affected by such a decree was erased.

The places chosen for the exhibitions have a specific meaning and are part of the project as places that already have a history and their own damnatio memoriae, as in the case of the Köpenick prison, a place where serious events with a strong political and social impact took place in 1933, during the so-called Bloody Week. In this case, too, it is a matter of violent repression against a population that in some way opposes a state of dictatorship.

To the collective, in the period from 2021 to 2022, have joined many other artists, currently, there are about twenty from sculpture to painting, from photography to installation, and from performance to video mapping. The collective includes in itself all forms of visual arts and not only proposes to remain independent and free in the contemporary art scene.

From the various meetings and exchanges that have occurred over time between members of the group, cross the distances related to the specificity of the history of the individual artist-activist as an intellectual, capable of defending culture as an authentic expression of the whole community thanks to the indispensable independence of art and itscontribution to the construction of memory on which to found a society finally more just.