The Bandite project is dedicated to some Savona partisans - Clelia Corradini, Ines Negri, Franca Lanzone, Paola Garelli, Luigia Comotto and the 'Maria bambina' Sisters of the Santa Corona hospital in Pietra Ligure - who are testimony to the fundamental role of the Italian Resistance in the liberation struggle and are a symbol of the many martyrs for freedom.
During the rites of commemoration of the caution of the Resistance, the honors of the flag are also performed in front of the memorial stone commemorating the sacrifice of the Partisan: the flags on that occasion are many and varied, and all are waved with firmness and transport.

The Bandite project consists of a series of flags, one for each women partisan, created in such a way that they can be waved by a group of flag wavers. The flag wavers originated in the 14th century as 'signalmen' during wartime. The flag expressed a strategic need because through the different and multiple colors, it could be a point of reference and recognition during combat.
The task of the flag wavers was in fact to communicate with the units through throwing and waving, indicating, according to a precise code, the salient phases of the battle. The flag wavers had to be faithful, discreet and ingenious, and if they were captured by the enemy they had to jealously guard the signals of the dance code, keeping the secret until death.
The partisan struggle is a naked existential experience animated by an elementary drive for human redemption that required the unconditional and total adhesion of men and women who were also faithful, discreet and ingenious, and who had to understand each other in silence and act in unison, hiding and concealing information, people, weapons, at the cost of their lives.

Bandite is developed in the form of a performance enacted by professional flag wavers who, through a studied choreography, move and 'activate' the Bandite flags.  Flags have always been used to represent an ideology, a belief, a belonging. The flag is a symbol of values, and the dance enacted by the flag-wavers can symbolically become a new process of enhancing stories in History.
In this project, the form and content of the work, in addition to dealing with memory and territory, investigate the parallelism and juxtaposition between the natural element, flowers, and the existential complexity of certain biographies: on each flag is represented a flower of Ligurian flora belonging to an endangered species and a word is embroidered, chosen from those engraved on the memorial stones of the Savona partisans to whom the flags are dedicated - 'coraggio' (bravery), 'caddero' (fell), 'resistenza' (resistance), 'libertà' (freedom), 'medita' (meditation), 'cura' (care).

The very strong and primary relationship with their land for the partisans means that the landscape is not considered merely as a frame or backdrop to the events, but a protagonist element of the Resistance. "The Resistance represented the fusion of landscape and people", writes Calvino in the preface of '64 to Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno.
The flowers depicted on the Bandite flags, which are meant to be the image of this relationship, are in their precarious existence as a threatened species, an example of resistance; the tenacity and at the same time the fragility of the flowers have value as iconicity: they are the very metaphor of life, of the alternation of the seasons, of birth and death, but they also refer to nature's capacity to enact continuous processes of rebirth and transformation.