Through daily walks of the city and the immersive experience with Italian culture and daily life, I came across many forms of political and social activism that began to formulate two separate bodies of works, the paintings and the drawings. Observing the city streets, pavements and walls, the overburdening persistence of ancient history began to merge with the propaganda and the advertisement of contemporary political beliefs. In its fragmentary forms, the amalgamation of the two reviled the multiple identities of Rome that titer on schizophrenic struggle for identity, wishing to consolidate its future and its past without being able to face its present.  The heroic past acts its revenge by insisting on its reinvention but, instead, gives way to betrayals of both fascist and communist legacies whose ideologies still haunt the city corners and surfaces.

— Andrea Medjesi-Jones