Within the magical setting of the medieval town of Bergamo Alta, this year together with Brescia Italian Capital of Culture, is the immersive exhibition by young director Beatrice Sancinelli (1995) who presents to the public the audio-visual work “Rumore dell’umore.” The exhibition, open from May 5 to 28, 2023, is a multisensory experience that winds through the dark rooms of the former monastery of Carmine, hidden in the heart of the city of Bergamo. “Rumore dell’umore” involves not only sight and hearing but the entire body, thanks to the use of the Woojer device, a kind of vest capable of making people perceive sound waves and presented for the first time in Italy in an artistic key.
The work consists of nine audio-visual performances starring Emanuele Algeri (1999), a young Italian dancer capable of creating an immediate empathy with the viewer who, through a succession of rooms, real and abstract, gets in touch with his own self. Each performance, thus each short film, corresponds to an emotional room named after a concept or sensation (such as chaos, euphoria and boredom) significant to the artists as they are responsible for psychological mechanisms that regulate human actions and attitudes. The viewer is then guided on a journey that traces the stages of human existence, translating it into images, colors and sounds without a logical coherence, but rather following those emotional peaks that reflect life itself.
Beatrice Sancinelli’s “Rumore dell’umore” exhibition can be enjoyed on a contingent basis (ten people at a time) so that visitors can enjoy as intimate and subjective a journey as possible, allowing each “I” the opportunity to listen to, look at, see and welcome each other. Woojer’s device concurs in creating an overwhelming experience that allows for a complete enjoyment, one that cancels the distance between the patterns and the subject. Short films are sometimes projected and at other times are instead rendered analogically, making use of classic cathode ray tube screens. This oscillation between innovative and obsolete generates a situation in which the boundary between the real and digital worlds becomes blurred.
Curator Maria Vittoria Baravelli‘s text returns the sensations that the viewer will take with him once he leaves the dark, ancient rooms of the monastery, enveloped in the light and splendor of the ancient cloister. “Beatrice, in an increasingly polished and anesthetized world, through this experien- ce reminds us how much all existing noises actually make far less rumbling than our- selves, because the real noise, the sound that envelops and makes the world begin to exist is the echo of the emotions that vi- brate within us.”
Online reservation and purchase on the website is recommended rumore dell’umore.
