“Costa Nostra”

“Costa Nostra”. Printing with pigmented inks on German baryta paper, 100% alpha cellulose, whiteness 98%, 310 grs. Wooden frame from analog archive. Print run: 3 copies per size. Size 100×75 cm.

Nobody bothers to fight the Mafia if the Mafia does not exist. The denial of its own existence was, for decades, one of the greatest successes of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra or the Neapolitan Camorra. The few who dared to raise their voice against the mafias were ignored, branded as opportunistic troublemakers or, in the worst cases, silenced with more expeditious methods. The establishment of mafias on the Costa del Sol has had the same benefit for too many years. Although some denounced more than fifteen years ago the evidence that different mafias were settling in such a privileged enclave, the administrations limited themselves to look the other way or, even worse, to put themselves at the service of the same mafias whose existence they denied. If the Marbella Town Hall had not put its urban planning at the service of criminal investments, if the Junta de Andalucía had acted in time, if some members of the Judiciary and the State Security Forces and Corps had not been in the pay of those they were supposed to fight, the tentacles of the mafias would never have been able to spread so far and so deep along the Costa del Sol.