Biennale College Teatro / Ciro Gallorano - Crisalidi

Inspired by the life and work of Francesca Woodman, Crisalidi places the audience in front of a beauty that eludes us in everyday life. What is invisible to the eye is translated, by way of the individual life experience of every person watching, into a different set of images. The eye/audience member witnesses the liminal existence of a woman as if peeping through a keyhole. They see an effigy of the artist that is at once helpless and omnipotent, intent on stopping and immortalising the passing of time. Everything feels suspended, and this atmosphere is interrupted by flashes of pleasantries and playfulness, as melancholy reminiscences of the playroom left behind when childhood ends. The woman acts in a room that is a projection of her own inner world: a run-down interior with cracked walls. She is lost here, outside of space and time, and will never be able to break free from this space, only escape it from within.

In the moments of suspension, when an action that is meaningful to her comes to an end, another figure emerges: her fractured double, embodying both relief and ruin.

These two sensual and indecent, multiform and alienated bodies hide, drawn into the close and humid atmosphere. They interact with this timeless, incubatory space; they blend in, becoming another object among objects, embodying presence and absence, turning themselves into a work of art.