« There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance… and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. » William Shakespeare

Ophelia was born from a desire that has accompanied me for years: to restore voice and body to a character too often overlooked. Ophelia moves through Hamlet like a shadow – objectified, silenced, left alone in her madness. In this performance, she returns as a living presence – vulnerable and persistent – speaking not through words, but through the body, through gesture, through dream. A proposal by curator Laura Lamonea and the encounter with dancer Giulia Quacqueri gave shape to this vision.

Inspired by the dreamlike and unsettling world of Francesca Woodman, we built a landscape in ruins, where memory and desire intertwine. On stage, there is no story to follow, but a presence to listen to. A figure moving between ending and beginning, between oblivion and rebirth. Ophelia does not aim to explain or denounce: it is an invitation to inhabit a threshold. To be traversed by what remains on the margins. To imagine, perhaps, another way of being in the world.

OPHELIA
Texts by William Shakespeare
Translation by Paolo Bertinetti
A performance by Luca Giacomoni
Curated by Laura Lamonea
With Giulia Quacqueri
Music by Daniela Pes
Puppet created by Ivan Terpigorev and Aimée Mattio

Produced by Video Sound Art for VIDAS
In co-production with the
Center for philosophical and theatrical research Hagia Sophia
Duration : 20 min
Photos © Luca Del Pia