PINOCCH-IO

Pinocch-io is a path that  comes from  a  personal  focus  on  the  frailty  and  ambiguity  of  being  there, now, as human and living beings. A reflection on the desire to recognize one’s body; a human body that in its multiple uniqueness and its naked disarmament moves in a condition of im-balance and tension, between fiction and truth, natural and artificial, light and darkness,  life and death. My gaze lies on the archetypal figure of Pinocchio, on  that imagined body that projects itself into a liminal, suspended space, and in its continuous and obstinate effort to free its deep nature and to make that step forward to get into (its)  dreamed  world.    My  body  connects to  the  “figur-I” in an act of presence, and is reflected in Pinocchio’s endless desire to become flesh and  gaze.  Through  movement  he  trains his  return  to  the  living  body,  makes  space for childhood memories,  and  tries  to  reconstruct  that  desire,  that  transformative  passage,  that  feeling, that visceral need to be there.