โa safe passage or a false idol?โ is a performance, culminating after a two-week residency at cultural venue Curva Minore in Palermo, Sicily. The work was initially inspired by a mosaic depicting the mythological Orpheus, creating a spellbound harmony. In it, he puts everyone around him into a submissive haze, suspending the world in perfect order. His lyra gathers the wild under its spell. Today,ย we live inside subtle glitches, pointless loops, and concealed fractures on seamless surfaces that promise balance and perfection. With this work, I wanted to make my own interpretationย of Orpheus lyra, and create sculptural artefactsย that echo distortion and present noise instead of harmony, searching for an imperfect form of connection.ย
Photographs by Alessandro D'Amico
During the residency process, I gathered a lot of discarded steel and aluminium to build a site-specific sound mise-en-scรจne. My body moved through each artefact in a playful but concentrated exploration of their materiality of sound.ย Using contact microphones, strings, a rotating motor, and a violin bow, the sound composition was intuitively built and layered on stage.ย Surprise percussion, droning frequencies, reverberating clicks, taps, and steps, looping vocals, and harsh noise were discovered through a flashlight, illuminating the passage through each sculpture. The body movements were organically unfolding over deep breathing, slow and tense steps, while I was narrating a passage I wrote for the piece.ย
