Flavia Dalila D’Amico: In music In Levare is placing the accent on a weak note, that relieves us for a moment from a continuous beat. In Levare, however, is also to rebel, to rise up together. For your vocation and artistic research, do you find yourself more in the first or in the second definition? What does ‘In Levare’ refer you to?
Giannini, Novembrini, Racis: If we were to try to incorporate In Levare, as an image, it would bring us back to the breath. That moment before the void, in those seconds when suspension becomes present and anything can happen. In Levare is also that moment of possibilities that is expressed in the concept of pulsation and thus of time. A reflection on time, its perception and its impermanence is strongly present in our work. That is why for example we use slow motion as a quality of the body in the rhythmic construction of the scene. In Levare contains the ability to soothe and relieve but also retains a critical view towards the present and its rhythm.
FDD: How do you decline the iconography of “vanitas” in relation to nowadays?
GNR: When we started talking about the work, we immediately thought of the poietic potential inscribed in Vanitas as an iconography and pictorial genre. Vanitas does not tell or merely show but evokes, leaving the viewer looking for meanings. We sought to translate this inherently metaphorical value into the performance, creating a sensory, emotional and visual experience imbued with nostalgia and disquiet but overflowing with life. Our questions about the transience of time, the meaning of art, the delicacy and at the same time the drama of life and its sensuality were our starting point and became more necessary in the current scenario of crisis, economic violence and wars. Vanitas is just one of many images that bring us back to the alienation and lonely selfishness that characterizes our present. If life is often pain, melancholy and disillusionment we are always afraid of losing a still enchanted look at the world, a thought about the future despite crises and fears.