Anìmule - Milano
YEAR
2023
DETAILS
- Paper cutouts, light source, audio
- Work in progress
- Performance duration: 14’’
CREDITS
- Photo: Alessandro Di Giugno
- Photo & video edit: Andrea Rossetti Studio
On the occasion of Nctm and Art, the immersive performance Anìmule was further developed.
Anìmule is an immersive performance based on a play of moving shadows projected onto a wall.
The shadows are generated by the artist by manipulating small silhouettes of ripped paper in whose shapes images of humans and other living entities merge. Their alternation on the surface is accompanied by a sound element: Losi reads fragments from Roberto Calasso (Il cacciatore celeste, 2016) and Alberto Giacometti (Paris sans fin, 1960), while a child’s voice recites short lines written by the artist herself. The two elements of which the performance is composed (the audio and the paper figures) are conceived, modified and modulated depending on the location and presentation, bringing to life an original performance each time.
TRACK AUDIO DETAILS
In collaboration with Carolina Casali
Sound contributions by Alessio Ferrari
Vittoria Fanelli, Inesa Martsinkevich, Oscar Formacio Mendoza, Adrian White Naude, Graziano Peruffo
Sound recordings by Giorgia Mascia realized in Orgosolo, Sardinia, 2021
“For as long as I can remember, if I have a piece of paper in my hands and cannot draw or write, and especially if I am listening to someone who is talking, I cannot contain myself: I tear the paper and based on the first tear, the first irregular line, I imagine a shape (animal, vegetable, a landscape, real or invented beings) and proceed by tearing and modeling contours. The result is silhouettes with irregular, stylized outlines and often incorrect proportions, responding to the paper type differently each time. These forms come alive in a narrative without a story, like apparitions in a shadow play. Amulets of light that appear and disappear. Wandering anìmules, Anìmule vaganti.” CL
