dehors

(2023) Closing scene for Lascia la porta socchiusa / Leave the door ajar, in the covered entrance that leads to Almanac Inn, Turin. 12 min performance with Ambra Pittoni and Will Pollard.
About who is placed in full light, at the risk of losing sight — who’s out and who brushes the threshold, and what is accepted in our field of vision.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CxVGWA75oY&feature=youtu.be.

“At ground level, in the covered entrance that leads to the place, the corridor through which people only briefly pass, to go up. It opens on the backyard: not square, not triangular, this space between the neighbours’ backdoors is also an open-air home of precision waste sorting.
With W, A, N (, T).
“(...) They bring their forearm on their forehead (in what is either a sign of exhaustion, an attempt to protect their eyes against the intense light, or evidence of a strong desire to go and cry in a corner), and look towards the light.”