Da capo

2020, performance, Bunker Soratte di Sant’Oreste (RM), Italy

The vanitas that explores repentance, detonation, and dust. Starting from the Christian iconography of sprinkle ashes on the head as a sign of penance, the intention is to propose a visual short-circuit through an explosive potential. Inside an atomic bunker, a mixture of ash and gunpowder is poured onto the performer's body. The history of the atomic bunker is contaminated by the performance, suggesting visual metaphors to the spectator. "Da capo" is the tension of an unexpressed explosion, the image generated alludes to the stillness of the Pompeian figures and to the evanescence of the shadows of Hiroshima. By subtracting the eruption of Vesuvius and the atomic explosion, the work makes it possible to speculate on causes and scenarios that reveal extinction.

The image

"Da capo" It's a series of performances.

Da capo, γνῶθι σαυτόν
An immobile performer (adopting the position of the skeleton from the mosaic of the Diocletian Baths, which reports the Greek phrase "know thyself") on a white surface, is completely covered in ash and gunpowder by a second performer. Once the action is complete, the first performer abandons the position, leaving her outline visible.

Da capo, raccolta
An immobile performer (in a meditative position, kneeling) on a white surface, is completely covered in ash and gunpowder by a second performer. Once the action is complete, the first performer abandons the position, leaving her outline visible.

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