Defrost Studio

25 Aprile
2025

Can you put a price on Freedom of Speech?
Last year, the Meloni government did: by censoring a talk by anti-fascist writer Antonio Scurati on public broadcasting, it settled on 1800 euros. We took that 1800 euros and, as an act of awareness, wrote quotes and messages about freedom of speech from Italian intellectuals on each banknote. Now, these banknotes are up for sale, allowing the spirit of protest and freedom to reach even more people.

Immigrant or Expat?
2021-2022

If I say "John is a migrant" or "John is an expat" how would you picture John in your head? What would he look like? How would you choose between ‘migrant’ and ‘expat’ considering that the two terms have almost identical meanings in the Cambridge Dictionary.

Immigrant: a person who has come to a different country in order to live there permanently.
Expat: someone who does not live in their own country.

Immorefugee - The Agency
2018

Exhibition about Immorefugee

Satellites
2017

Mass migration has led to the creation of new residential areas.
Although in Europe we still don’t realize it because the cases are limited, it does not mean that this is not happening elsewhere in the world. In Europe, Calais was the most striking example of the refusal of cohabitation in favour of detention. Real cities have been shaped by decades of mass migration and the clearest examples of this phenomenon are to be seen in Africa, especially in Kenya, Chad and the Western Sahara.

Immorefugee
2016

Useful guide to the properties in the refugee camp of Calais. The residential area of the “New Jungle” is a large residential area of 500,000m2 in the outskirts of Calais, France. Surrounded by a 5 meters-high metallic fence and equipped with running water and lights, the “New Jungle” offers different housing typologies, both old and newly built.

Beyond the Fortress
2015

Beyond The Fortress is a short documentary series about people living in Lampedusa and how they deal with the refugee crisis. A collection of stories about people and migration.