Video: Charlotte Wuillai
Photo: Charlotte Wuillai
Texts: Pietro Floridia
Actors: Abraham Tesfai and Pietro Floridia
Original music: J.S. Bach, two-year elaboration of Composition for music applied to the images of the “F. Venezze ”of Rovigo
Musical coordination: Daniele Furlati

Musicians on stage
Nico Dalla Vecchia: Electric bass
Paolo Falasca: Electric guitar
Luca Leprotti: Live electronics
Eugenio Mininni: Live electronics

The first idea of ​​"The Art of Fugue" was born within the European project ATLAS HISTORY UNDER CONSTRUCTION which involves theater companies, universities and artists from France, Belgium, Poland, and which has as its object a comparative perspective between memories of Europeans and those of migrants and refugees. The director Pietro Floridia, artistic director of Cantieri Meticci, and Charlotte Wuillai, set designer and visual artist, analyzed and de-constructed the escape of refugees, identifying recurring themes, common dynamics, keywords, inventions and strategies typical to try to survive. From this research we have chosen to select some verbs that articulate typical figures of the fugue, and which can be useful as a starting point for a creation of an artistic nature capable of generating a level jump in a more abstract, stratified, susceptible to multiple interpretations. "Crossing", "Stowing", "Falling" "Clinging", "Masking", "Flying": these are the actions that Charlotte Wuillai has placed at the center of her visual research, creating six video panels which, starting from a he central image, heterogeneously decline the theme of the verb, according to a technique of Atlas which has its founder in Aby Warburg, who, in the work Mnemosyne, composed montages among the most disparate images united by a common pictorial theme that it appeared and disappeared over the centuries. The result is a video montage of images that appear, disappear, chase each other, interact in counterpoint with each other, by contrast, by similarity, by constellations of meaning, by common nuclei despite their diversity. Image against image, note against note; musical thought is intertwined with visual research. The installation, interacting with the revisited counterpoints of Bach's Art of the Fugue, generates unprecedented associations, conceptual flashes but also emotions.