Album

The production

An album of photographs is a time machine: every photograph is a story, every story is a window to an elsewhere, to ourselves of the past, to our loved ones, to the places we  have lived. Going through an album means to sink into our unconsciousness, in our past  lives and glances. 
Memory and forgetfulness are the key words that motivated Kepler-452’s Album, a show that meets with memory and its fading: physiologically, when old age and degenerative pathologies affect it; materially, when a catastrophe, like a flood, drags in a wave of gray mud a life’s objects; social, when the loss of memory is the removal of what we were, and mirror the impossibility of imagining what we could be. 
The company, experimenting with a non-frontal spatiality, together with devices and  forms of direct and audiovisual projection, composes the performance collecting stories  and images from various parts of Italy and Europe, meeting people and communities. 
A «scenic album», written by Enrico Baraldi, Riccardo Tabilio and Nicola Borghesi, and interpreted by the latter. 
An album without borders: an attempt and a search ignited by an image suggested by the animal world: how is it possible that all the eels of the world, at a certain point of their life, travel tens of thousands of kilometers on the bottom of the oceans to find themselves, driven by an ancestral memory, all together in the same place, to reproduce, die, be born again.

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Curated by KEPLER-452 (NICOLA BORGHESI AND ENRICO BARALDI) 
On stage NICOLA BORGHESI 
In collaboration with RICCARDO TABILIO 
Technical concept ANDREA BOVAIA 
Sound design and music ALBERTO IRRERA 
Coordination ROBERTA GABRIELE 
Photo by ELISA VETTORI, MICHELE LAPINI AND GIULIA LENZI 
Project winner of DAILY BREAD CALL WITHIN THE EUROPEAN PROJECT STRONGER  PERIPHERIES: A SOUTHERN COALITION 
In coproduction with PERGINE FESTIVAL, PRO PROGRESSIONE AND L’ARBORETO – TEATRO DIMORA DI MONDAINO 
With the support of INTERCETTAZIONI – CENTRO DI RESIDENZA ARTISTICA DELLA LOMBARDIA  AND RESIDENZA ARTISTI NEI TERRITORI MASQUE TEATRO 

Duration 65 minutes