Textile work, writing and performance
Becoming an orphan is a subjective production created in order to deal with my present after both of my parents’ death of cancer in 2020. It is developed from the archive of usable objects that I acquired in the period between their diagnosis and deaths.
Narrations belonging to each item attempt to analyze the true motivation behind the
shopping, to try and find meaning under this second skin made out of fashion, and also to assume the failure of my attempt of filling with clothing the void they left.
The performative presentation of the texts is a symbolic production that invites the viewer
into a global moment in which the pandemic forced us all to face the loss of our reference spaces, to reflect together about our place in the world and the way in which we exist in it: the way in which we present ourselves becomes more problematic than ever. The look of the other – intense, deep, in the present time – allows me to be completed.
The audience is invited to inscribe from the corporal experience in the mourning process
and to participate in the reflection on topics to which I have not yet been able to find answers.
The mood is built on repetitions and variations on the same palette of emotions and corporal movements. Rhythms and tonalities appear alternated in order to tense in dissonance the space between fantasy and the raw memories that come back to the present and move it, conveying the necessity of joint reflection and allowing a fragile, intimate and powerful voice to appear underneath.
