performanceFrancesca GrilliThe Forgetting Of Air
Carlo Scarpa hall
ticket € 5
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it is mandatory to arrive at the infopoint 15 minutes before the start time indicated on the ticket
it is mandatory to arrive at the infopoint 15 minutes before the start time indicated on the ticket
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.

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ticket € 5
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Time, vapour and breath transform air into sculptural matter.
Audience and performers share air and presence: breathing is the body’s first individual autonomous action. Its beginning gives life and its disappearance is the sign of the end.
In the action created by Francesca Grilli in 2016, the performers, whose biography is marked by a history of migration or who work with migrant people, move in a space filled with steam together with the audience: their breathing is amplified by some megaphones and is lost in the sound of the steam escaping into the air.
performers
Bashir Abdiaziz, Cristina Gasperin, Mohamed Harmouche, Meryem Lakhouite, Albertino Meneghetti, Micaela Tatiana Zurita Poma
credits
stagecraft Paola Villani stage training Benno Steinegger breath training Alessandra Bordiga production Chiara Massari / Corpoceleste diffusion and curator Elena Regazzoni administration Chiara Fava / Corpoceleste a production of MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo co-production Contemporanea Festival / Teatro Metastasio, Prato; Terni Festival, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Perugia; Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Ghent special thanks to Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Naples
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