tutta tua visïon fa manifesta

The concept unfolds through a series of significant dichotomies: the contrast between darkness and light, inertia and participation, the individual and the collective, inner cavities and the outside world.

Savouring the space opened up by these extremes invites us to discover what lies within them, and how we inhabit them. It means experiencing what exists in between. In these liminal spaces, something from one extreme is offered to the other, and vice versa. This is where disobedience takes place, where desertion happens. The vivid clarity and fervent curiosity that emerge from inhabiting these spaces, together with the act of deserting the certainties that initially define them, give rise to a way of standing on one's own feet, with an attentive and expansive gaze that moves between inside and outside, above and below…

Deserting our collectively embodied convictions takes shape through the act of making visible what we see. To reveal ourselves and step into the open is what keeps us alive.

It is with this nuance in mind that the title draws on a verse from Paradiso, whose words express the imperative to bring forth the “truths” we come to know through experience. In Canto XVII, verse 128 — «Tutta tua visïon fa manifesta» (“Make your entire vision manifest”) — Cacciaguida, Dante's ancestor, urges Dante to speak out, to make manifest what he has seen and what he has heard.

The outermost layer of the work is woven into the tangled threads of participation. It is shaped not only by the dialogue between the two bodies that first inhabit the stage, but also by all those who wish to take part. Stepping into the open together is more beautiful. Encounter, confrontation, collision, welcoming and letting go are what keep us thinking, living human bodies.