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Restoring, recomposing, preparing – while forced at home. The house becomes a laboratory for crafts, experimentation, and personal care.
Dedicating, nursing, attending – to beauty rituals and pleasance.
The praxis of portraiture and its value. A broken vase, related to the performer’s personal history, with a peculiar kitsch aesthetic and allusive of the feminine body and stereotypical image, becomes the object of obsessive and meticulous care, as an attempt of metaphorically getting ready for the next public image after being broken.
The private performance unfolds in a long session of photo-performance inspired by the philosophy of Kintsugi and the circumstances of the long Italian lockdown during Covid emergency in spring 2020.

This project was created in response to the PhD In-Practice Seminar ‘Resisting Borders: Navigating the Liminal’ by Traci Kelly, for De Montfort University’s Drama, Dance and Performance Studies Research Institute, June 2020.