Collection particulière

Reversal
Collection Particulière was born from a reflection on the skin as an organ and a place in itself, and from an approach to the body from its surfaces. This reflection blended research on internal perception, on the skin, on body surfaces, and a questioning on performance, on reversal from the body point of view. The title conjures up reversal, a universe that no longer has anything in common with narration. It plays on the singular and the plural: “collection-particulière”.

Surfaces
Reflection on the surfaces around the body, first of all: the ground, bearing, support; led me to propose a flat, horizontal surface that splits the body space and the stage space in two. This line highlights my axes of symmetry and it is here that the play on body splitting enters the scene. It is a way of reviewing the body, where this line creates an attraction, an axis through which certain things appear. It is a line that cuts and heals, that duplicates and unites.

Gravity
When I explored this space split by a horizontal line, I discovered two complementary yet different qualities. First of all, holding on, using all the surfaces – maximum grip – and secondly, being suspended, abandoning oneself, no tension, the easiness with which a suspended body can be mobile. It is the idea of letting go.

Source : Maria Donata d’Urso