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Writing for a rope

2018

Writing for a rope

Video-performance (duration 4’3”)

Conceived and performed by Antonella de Sarno

Sound design by Piermarco Lunghi

Filmmaking and photos by Simone Pucci Movimento Creative Label

Production Danaus Limnia

In collaboration with “Les deux Iles” artists residence France

Thanks to Teatro N.U.N.C. and Willy Salimei Castiglion Fiorentino (AR)

I, sitting
In an empty room
With plastic flower bunches
piles of white stones around
Of a valley in the womb of the forest – I Dream –
One day it received me as mother’s uterus
That does not take – but gives
I, sitting
On the red armchair,
looking at white corners
in an empty room
the further the sky
the closer the stomach cares for its pulsing,
green of fresh grass
I, wrapped in earth
talking to myself, not praying
no, not praying

Picking flowers, counting stones
letting the hands repair the venter
and finally, letting go of the head
In my intestine’s labyrinth this rope
unties me forever from the clay of our journey
I, kneeling joining hands, it would be peace
Thinking of the sky as the Absolute
always invisible though so always present,
I dance, seek for feet air and ground
The far echo,
Island of no return – exile – red
drags me back to two
to in and to out
And of empty and naked walls
I remain watching naked corners
Desert of grass,
Iron bars – straight ones –
I, alone as an undone building
In a deserted construction site

(Antonella De Sarno )

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