By Gabriella Salvaterra

Dramaturgical Collaboration Miguel Jofrè Sarmiento

Music by Pancho Garcia Olfactory

Landscape Giovanna Pezzullo

Costumes by Francesca Rossi Technica

l Direction Sergio Taddei

Featuring Miguel Jofrè Sarmiento, Arianna Marano, Gabriella Salvaterra

Produced by Vie Scena Contemporanea Festival

I have chosen to define “dopo” as an inhabited sensorial installation that seeks to investigate the relationship between fracture and repair, starting from the intimate and personal experience of its visitors, so that each person can create a meaningful encounter with their own personal story. To do this, I have tried to bear witness to the fractures that make up our lives, studying the material and symbolic fragments that have shaped us as individuals.

“dopo” invites the viewer to become a traveler and to live a poetic experience, exploring a labyrinthine space made of pieces, remnants, and parts that have been connected through “joints,” “stitches,” “patches,” and other forms of repair. It is a space where “continuity” predominates, where an apparently undivided unity is created, yet whose details allow us to glimpse what has been broken and the attempts to mend it.

Fracture, loss, wound — what we inflict on others or what breaks within ourselves. We, too, are made of all this. Our society strongly emphasizes productivity, while we move further away from the capacity for repair, relegating this action to a secondary, minor, almost invisible role. We live in a paradox: the more fragmented our lives become, the harder it is for us to see the fractures that help us grow.

Yet looking at and internalizing a broken object can create a deep connection with one’s own wounds and fractures. Sometimes it is not possible to repair, and sometimes it is — but it is a fact that what has been broken will never again be exactly the same as before