Je Vous Aime, una performance per gli udenti, foto © Sara Meliti, courtesy l'artista
event
Thursday 2 July 2026 6.30 PM

performanceDiana AnselmoJe Vous Aime

galleria 3
duration: 50 minutes
performance in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and Italian
included in the museum ticket price

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The Large Glass exhibition will be closed from Thursday 25 June to Thursday 3 September. We apologise for any inconvenience.

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Je Vous Aime (I love you) is a very short film, so short that it lasts just one second.

It is 1891, four years before the Lumière brothers. Demenÿ invents the phonoscope and creates the first moving image projection in history: himself saying ‘I love you’.

Taking this episode as its starting point, the performance by Diana Anselmo – a queer, Deaf performer and visual artist – explores the counter-history of oppression faced by the Deaf community within a multimedia theatrical space that combines video, Italian Sign Language (LIS) and Visual Sign, revealing what the artist describes as the ‘violent and hearing-centred origins’ of the projection that led to the birth of Cinema.

credits
by Diana Anselmo with Diana Anselmo and Sara Pranovi produced by CHIASMA video testimonies by Paolo Girardi, Leonarda Catalano, Mario Minucci, Maurizio Anselmo, Anna Folchi, Vincenza Giuranna, Diana Vantini, Matteo Pedrazzi produced with the support of IntercettAzioni – Lombardy circuit


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