Voices. Footprints. Gestures. Objects.

tracks of spaces and structures. Signs of a vital presence that from a transparent cell reproduced on a 1:1 scale radiates onto the audience, and beyond, as the exploded wooden elements that make up the cell cover the audience until to they become, in an indefinite horizon, pure color.

Pathetic Affections, conceived, realized and staged by the students of the classes 1st, 2nd and 3rd Art Institute associated seat Reclusion House under the guidance of Prof. Giorgio Flamini is not a show-truth nor a documentary: it is certainly a show that wants to give voice to the "Voices from within," the thoughts, the dreams of its protagonists, in the daily gestures, objects, significant spaces, and the rhythms that mark the time of detention.

But the substance of truth in Pathetic Affections becomes, by opera its Author-Actors, the substance of a reworking in which formal treatment to dominates.

And so the stroll becomes a performance with an almost Baushean flavor in its rigorous geometric interlockings.

The indistinct voices of backyards become rap. The solitary reflection, in its dogged repetition, bends to low of a broadside on which to weave a crescendo of humorous and self-mocking inlays. Awakening dialogues are transfigured into a kind of eidyllion with a Theocritean flavor.

The interviews lend the truth of gestures, cares, and affections to a contrapuntal treatment

Pathetic affectivity is, in many ways, in-sustainable, as can be a truth that one would like concealed or removed.

But above all, he wants to show that the word and theatrical gesture, with the formal control they demand, provide the keys to access the fullest and most authentic ποίησις and the spaces of incompressible freedom that it is capable of unlocking to those who conquer it.

to all the Students who contributed to the creation of Pathetic Affections and to Giorgio Flamini who guided them in the difficult art of inventio, my heartfelt thanks.

Prof. Roberta Galassi
(School principal)

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