Performance 2025

Friday, November 21, 5:00 PM

Landfall by Sonia Andresano

The performance LANDFALL explores the relationship between balance and tension through a collective action in the fluid space of Fuksas’ Nuvola. The performers, dressed in black, carry golden buoys on their shoulders — small sculptures, nautical objects used as navigational tools. The light ropes, stretched and intertwined toward a central bollard, create suspended geometries that change with the movement of the bodies, transforming the space into a dynamic web of lines.
The invisible boundary becomes a metaphor for the relationship between the individual and the community: a signal, a reference point, and at the same time, a constraint.
LANDFALL is therefore a drawing of lines, bodies, and sound in continuous motion. The word itself means “landing” and contains both the fall (“fall”) and the arrival, the land (“land”), suggesting a tension between control and surrender.
In a historical moment like this, it is necessary to redesign ports, to include and welcome “others,” to transform obstacles into maneuvers of possibility — where bodies become mobile borders: political bodies.

Sonia Andresano (Salerno, 1983) lives and works between Rome and Milan. Her practice develops through different media — video, photography, sculpture, and performance — and focuses on themes such as waiting, travel, nomadism, and change. Her works, often rooted in evolving personal experiences, explore memory, domestic and inhabited spaces, physical or symbolic transitions between places, and the tension between stillness and movement.

Saturday, November 22, 3:30 PM

Try by Marilisa Cosello

Try refers to the attempt, the trial, the aesthetic ambition inscribed in the athletic gesture — a project about the mythology of the body and decontextualization as a critical device.
For the performance hosted at Roma Arte in Nuvola, this set of meanings undergoes a radical reduction. Space and context are eliminated. Two boxers remain. The question is no longer where the body acts, but how the body produces thought. When you remove the background, what remains is the body as pure language — no mediation, no frame.
The boxing gesture becomes the only available sign system: attack–defense–dodge–strike. Boxing articulates a relational syntax based on distance, time, and the anticipatory reading of the other’s body.
The boxers cease to be objects of vision and become subjects producing corporeal knowledge — generating understanding for themselves, between them, through simultaneous, non-linear, relational logics.
The performance becomes a space to test whether the body can stand on its own as a self-sufficient system of thought, without the need for translation.

Marilisa Cosello (Salerno, 1978) lives and works in Milan. She uses photography, video, performance, and installation to explore the body as a narrative and symbolic tool. At the center of her practice are the dynamics between power and the public and private spheres, family rituals, and collective archetypes.

Saturday, November 22, 5:30 PM

Mission Space Y by Filippo Riniolo with Corrado Formigli

Artist Filippo Riniolo has just returned from the lunar mission “Space Y.” A few hours after landing on Earth, the cosmonaut meets the public to recount his experience on the lunar surface, in an event that promises to be extraordinary for both its scientific scope and symbolic significance.
The meeting is led by journalist Corrado Formigli, who interviews cosmonaut Riniolo in an in-depth dialogue about the stages of the mission, the technical challenges faced, the political implications, and the perspectives opened by a project that looks toward the future of humanity’s relationship with space.
The mission aimed to locate and retrieve waste left behind by previous space expeditions — a complex operation that required months of preparation and a long stay on the lunar surface.
During the conference, some of the materials brought back from the Moon are also displayed — objects that bear witness to the gravity of human presence on our satellite and reignite the urgent need for a concrete reflection on the impact of space exploration.
The Space Y mission was made possible thanks to the technological and scientific support of Traffic Gallery, SISEI – Seriana Institute for Space Exploration and Innovation, Mars Planet Technologies, and Punto Azzurro.

Filippo Riniolo (Milan, 1986) lives and works in Rome. His research explores themes that intertwine the poetic and the political, the social and the historical, with a strong focus on contemporary issues. Among his main fields of inquiry are the relationship between body and power, sexual diversity, gender studies, and postcolonial perspectives.

Sunday, November 23, 3:00 PM

Eternity by Alix Boillot

Human crying as the eternal cycle of water — emotions flowing in a river of tears — this could be the essence of Eternity.
A performer, actress Maria Pia Fusi, wears a necklace made of salt pearls from Lake Assal (Djibouti), whose shape and saline nature allude to tears. The necklace stands out against the black dress — the color of mourning in Italy — worn by the performer, who sings a cappella a song by Jeff Buckley, “Grace,” perhaps a premonition of the artist’s own drowning in the muddy waters of a Mississippi tributary.
The singing grows increasingly intense and heartfelt until tears fall: a liquefaction of our emotions that connects us to the world. In this mysterious overflow, water molecules emerge — their residence time varying: 3,200 years in the ocean, 9 days in the atmosphere, 10,000 years in aquifers, and 10 days in the human body. Tears have known the sea — a sea they will soon return to. This intimate “high tide,” which we have learned to contain, transforms the singer into a fountain.
Curated by Isabella Vitale.

Alix Boillot (Paris, 1992) lives and works in Paris. Her practice spans sculpture, installation, scenography, performance, and publishing. Her research investigates what is ephemeral and immaterial: imagination, simulacrum, and belief. At the center of her work are objects and relics that define human identity, whose value is determined by the meanings we attribute to them.