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CARNOSAE RADICES

2020

CONCEPT AND DIRECTION: Camilla Giani, Carla Imponente
TEXT: Carla Imponente
PERFORMER: Camilla Giani
VIDEO RECORDING: Niccolò Celesti
EDITING: Federico Runfola

 

Video submitted to the ‘CARAPELLI FOR ART 2020’ competition

Carnosae Radice is an experience of expansion at the boundaries of the skin.

We decided to experiment and document a sensory experience of rootedness, drawing on naturalistic models transfigured through our imagination. We were captivated by the insinuation of roots into the ground, an expansive movement that is generated by the encounter between the thrust of the root and the strength and yielding of the soil, a symbiotic and tiring interpenetration that creates drive and nourishment.

 

The performer’s body is buried, first partially then completely.
The journey of the performer’s body sensing the contact with the soil has been the leading track of the work.
The relationship with the earth was initially light, probing, measured.
Then total, immersive, enveloping.

This work is the result of my first collaboration with Carla Imponente, writer, thinker and director.

The sound and weight of spoken and written words, the direction and an imagery that has surreal developments, in an attempt to encode emotions in cathartic images, are Carla’s own worlds.

 

This work was born from a visual text by Carla , which we decided to narrate together, developing it on a performative level through movement. It is precisely this process of embodying an idea that we have tried to represent, assimilating the creative rooting, which from the initial inspiration leads to the completion of a work, to the path of friction that occurs when we decide to make space for ourselves in a living and earthly matter, in direct contact with the nature of our being.