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Get matched →Caterina Borelli Artist in Residence: Motel Africa—Oil and Modernity in Post Independence Tanzania. The project is a feature documentary about the motel that the Italian energy company AGIP built in downtown Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1964. It examines the history of oil infrastructure and architecture's influence on a post-independence African nation and how it came to embody modernity.
The project focuses on how the company presented itself to enter African markets through calendars, short films, and advertising campaigns that mirrored earlier Italian production. Key questions include: Was the company's vision of the African market equal to that of Italy's? How did this exported image of modernity influence post-independence Tanzania and its multicultural African, Indian, and Arabian communities?
Borelli has completed the research phase and compiled hours of interviews and archival materials—still images, drawings, advertisements, and architectural plans. She is now finalizing the script and creating a plan for production.
September–October 2025
Caterina Borelli is an artist and filmmaker who places her practice at the conjunction of anthropology, history, and media, using the built environment to unfold social and cultural issues. She is the director of MoroRoma, an image collection covering political and social events from the beginning of the nineteenth century to 1950. She has received fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation (2023), the Rockefeller Bellagio Center (2014), and was a consultant for the Real Academia de España en Roma in spring 2025.
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