Residency showcase presented as part of Corpi in Ascolto 2026
the evening will follow with
Dialoghi, a conversation between Lucrezia Ercolani and Arkadi Zaides
Starting from Nicolas Poussin’s famous painting (1638), now held at the Louvre, ET IN ARCADIA EGO transforms the canvas into a living scenic device. If in the painting four figures contemplate a tomb inscription, on stage four artists interrogate the painting itself, reactivating its tension between utopia and death in a present marked by militarization, algorithmic surveillance, and new forms of remote violence. Through this process, spaces emerge that are haunted simultaneously by historical memory and ongoing crisis, positioning the work as a site where suppressed and urgent narratives surface, and where the persistence of utopian desire is confronted with the realities that threaten it.
During the residency period in Rome, Arkadi Zaides and Igor Dobričić will be present to develop their own contribution to this multifaceted work in progress.