Anahi Mariotti - Portfolio
April 9, 2015 Quadraro - Rome

Il sentiero dei nidi di vespa - THE WASP'S NEST TRAIL

Solo show
Performance through the streets of the Quadraro neighborhood and installation at the independent gallery Spazio Y

5 symbolic addresses taken from the 1944 list of deportees

From these points strands depart, crossing the streets of the neighborhood, leading to the place where a wasp's nest was made with the same strands running through the streets.

5 performers pick up the red threads, rolling them up with very rapid gestures, their step is slow and solemn. A ritual that the audience, made up of passersby and city dwellers, witnesses in sacred silence.

The 5 women gather at the same time in front of the door of the Space Y Gallery, the wasp's nest.

Black candles are lit, with which the list of deportees is set on fire.

Symbolically the nest is set on fire, to eliminate it.

But the bronze microsculptures, that is, the wasps, remain.

A work about memory, about the power of resistance.

Video

Performance. Installation. Bronze microsculpture. Red thread. Candles. Deportee list from the round-up.

The wasp's nest trail

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