With “AN ECHO, A FRAME”, the performances meet the artworks of “I Preferiti di Marino. Chapter II – Opus Mundi.”

The performance unfolds in two complementary formats, both conceived to engage directly with the artworks and the exhibition space: a live site-specific version, presented on selected dates within the spaces of the Centro Arti e Scienze, and a virtual reality version, accessible through the headsets available in the exhibition.

The live site-specific version stems from the desire to create a form of dance capable of guiding the viewer’s gaze among the artworks, moving through them and setting them in motion, activating the exhibition space as a living organism. Within the exhibition, the works are arranged according to the major transitions of our time, not as a sequence to be passively followed, but as a true field of forces. Two moving bodies traverse the exhibition and the audience follows them, sharing an experience that unfolds step by step.

The frame is both the physical frame of the artworks and the attempt to contain what is in constant flux. The dancer’s body inhabits this tension, becoming an echo by responding to the space and the images it encounters, and a frame because, for a moment, it becomes an image itself. Once again, the sea is the point of departure, with its continuous, unstable, and unrepeatable motion, hypnotic and opening onto an almost spiritual sense of wonder. Here, movement does not explain the transitions of our time but accompanies them, bringing audience, space, and artworks into relation without ever halting the flow.

In the VR version, “AN ECHO, A FRAME” becomes an immersive dance work in which gesture does not represent but reacts. Virtual reality does not freeze movement; instead, it exposes it to its own instability, making visible the tension between flow and stillness, between echo and frame. The starting point is the sea—perhaps the vision that more than any other brings us closer to the idea of eternity, not because of its infinity, but because of its constant transformation. In the dancers’ flow, the same natural, hypnotic, and unstable motion resurfaces: a movement that does not preserve, but returns.

The work culminates in the Agglomerati costumes, created specifically for the filming: through these garments, the body ceases to be merely a vehicle for movement and becomes an artwork itself, a sensitive surface and matter traversed by time. “AN ECHO, A FRAME” does not narrate the major transitions of our time—ecological, geopolitical, demographic, technological, cultural—but sets them into vibration, like the sea, which does not explain, but measures those who gaze upon it.

The performance is created by Philippe Kratz, with sound design by Tommaso Michelini and costumes by Nuvia Valestri, with modifications and adaptations of Agglomerati. The dancers involved are Alessia Giacomelli and Kiran Gezels for the site-specific version, and Federica Lamonaca and Giovanni Leone for the VR version. Technological development, user experience design, video shooting, montage, and editing are by Impersive.

The live performances presented as part of the exhibition will take place on:

• Sunday 8 February (11:00 am and 12:15 pm)

• Friday 13 March (6:15 pm and 7:30 pm)

• Sunday 15 March (11:00 am and 12:15 pm)

• Friday 10 April (6:15 pm and 7:30 pm)

• Sunday 12 April (11:00 am and 12:15 pm)

• Friday 22 May (6:15 pm and 7:30 pm)

• Sunday 24 May (11:00 am and 12:15 pm)

Each appointment includes 20 minutes of performance, followed by a 40-minute guided tour of the exhibition.

Participation fee: €10 (full price) and €8 (reduced price, for Cultura Card holders and for categories normally entitled to free or reduced admission to the guided tour).

To book the performance, it is necessary to complete the dedicated registration form.