'Wasps' nest' is perhaps one of the best-known historical appellations of the Quadraro: it was given by the Nazis to define in a derogatory way a neighborhood shelter for partisans, informers and communists protected by the inhabitants of the neighborhood. And it is precisely this protective silence, this strength of resistance of the ‘quadraroli’ (the inhabitants of Quadraro), that is the starting point of Anahi Mariotti's intervention: the artist often investigates - through multiple languages - the potential of relating to the other, together with a search for attention to detail, a manual skill that in Vespe emerges clearly from the meticulous realism of the sculptures, faithful representations of small wasps. Placed invisibly and diffusely in a strategic corner of the neighborhood, a natural outpost of observation, the Wasps inscribe as small monuments of a great historical memory of resistance: "sentinels - as the artist states - both annoying and resistant because the wasp can sting several times, without ever losing its sting."

Crossroads between Via dei Quintili and Via degli Arvali

Bronze microsculptures; environmental dimensions within Ginkgo- an Artistic Resilience project.