CARNAVAL VIVALDI
Eight masked figures emerge from a distant past, taking over the stage like ritual presences from an ancient Carnival. Set to the music of Vivaldi, the performance unfolds as a journey through celebration, ritual, and tragedy, within a dreamlike landscape that connects past and present. Amid festive processions, prophecies, and apparitions, the masks search for the King of Carnival—the victim to be sacrificed in order to purify the community. But the ritual breaks down: guilt no longer belongs to a single individual. It spreads, multiplies, and permeates the entire collective. Everyone is guilty, everyone is a victim, everyone can be sacrificed.
Through a sequence of visionary tableaux heightened by veils, transparencies, and shadow play, Carnaval Vivaldi offers a tragicomic reflection on the human condition and the finitude of life. Within, through, and beyond the mask, the work reveals the most unsettling face of the contemporary world: an endless Carnival driven by the irrationality of its own masks, where the search for guilt becomes both necessary and impossible. It lays bare a voracious and desperate society that, in order to survive its own fragility, endlessly multiplies the guilty and the enemy, sacrificing individuals on the altar of a false illusion of freedom.
Eight masked figures emerge from a distant past, taking over the stage like ritual presences from an ancient Carnival. Set to the music of Vivaldi, the performance unfolds as a journey through celebration, ritual, and tragedy, within a dreamlike landscape that connects past and present. Amid festive processions, prophecies, and apparitions, the masks search for the King of Carnival—the victim to be sacrificed in order to purify the community. But the ritual breaks down: guilt no longer belongs to a single individual. It spreads, multiplies, and permeates the entire collective. Everyone is guilty, everyone is a victim, everyone can be sacrificed.
Through a sequence of visionary tableaux heightened by veils, transparencies, and shadow play, Carnaval Vivaldi offers a tragicomic reflection on the human condition and the finitude of life. Within, through, and beyond the mask, the work reveals the most unsettling face of the contemporary world: an endless Carnival driven by the irrationality of its own masks, where the search for guilt becomes both necessary and impossible. It lays bare a voracious and desperate society that, in order to survive its own fragility, endlessly multiplies the guilty and the enemy, sacrificing individuals on the altar of a false illusion of freedom.
