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OMUS
chiedi alla pelle di rispondere
ph: Marco Caselli Nirmal
ph: Andrea Macchia
ph: Roberta Segata
ph: Marco Caselli Nirmal
concept and direction:
Francesca Pennini
action and creation:
Simone Arganini
Carmine Parise
Angelo Pedroni
Francesca Pennini
Stefano Sardi
singing:
Stefano Sardi
sound design:
Simone Arganini
"OMUS" is the catharsis of the body; it is an open wound between ancient and modern.
Omus is Sumo, a contest to fall into a central void.
From the journey of the show "Benvenuto Umano" a contemporary ritual is born, where the gaze becomes an accomplice to a reality made of weight and flesh.
A struggle that becomes an iconographic game on human history.
It is from the skin that a contemporary oracle makes a sign emerge.
It is in that apparition that cracks the violence and the game transforms.
Creation is a moving hieroglyph, a dialogue between spectators from distant eras.
A generative organism outside the dominant binary logic: the visceral manifestation of a thought that finds its foundation in mystery.
Rough. Bruised. Suspended.
" [...] And it is the body, always and still the body, that is the centripetal core of the entire action, the organic apparatus in which the free fight between liver, heart, lung, and stomach is defined, as if they were autonomous tactile sensations. The body as an encounter, as an exchange and also as suffering, [...] while Pennini frees her movements in a fluid, mutable, enigmatic dance. As imponderable as existence can be and, for that very reason, tremendously alive."
[ Valentina De Simone - La Repubblica on Benvenuto Umano ]
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