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The self-portrait has no words, it expresses itself in silent contemplation of Self. The body reflected in the mirror reveals a lived space. The holographic video installation reflects on the fragility of Being. I needed to see myself with my inner eye, to find an existential meaning after disenchantment. Scrutinise myself to open a renewed vision, beyond the veil, to be reborn. The projection of the body becomes a path to knowledge of the soul. The datamoshing technique decomposes the figure into luminous matter. The jagged colours reveal the ambivalence of inner fragmentation. Being fragmented expresses the pain of the loss of identity form, but at the same time fragmenting, as in a Buddhist meditation technique, is a practice to seek a broader vision of being. The body, painted in the mirror, evokes its presence in space and connotes itself as a ‘spatial self’. In the duality of the reflection it represents a locus amoenus, it appears as ‘the other from me’, ‘the elsewhere.’ The camera, in the relationship of gaze with the mirror and the observer, poses a paradox: the camera reinforces identity, making it a threshold of passage towards the relationship to the ‘you that can be me’. The body in the mirror is the fragile touch of the soul. An interior space that unites us. In the mirror, the human figure opens itself to dialogue with the Being.
I graduated in theatre studies at the Department of Art, Music and Performing Arts of the University of Bologna. In 2018, completed the advanced training course in socio-cultural educator at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Bologna. From 2001 to 2017, studied and collaborated with Maestro Dimitri Pasquali, from whom I learnt the fundamental techniques of classical theatre, cinema, voice and theatre didactics. I am a self-taught photographer and video editor. In 2004, I met Rena Mirecka. Rena Mirecka was one of the founding members and first actress of J. Grotowski’ s Teatr Laboratorium. Since 2004, I have continued to participate in the Master's Paratheatrical laboratory, becoming her assistant and finally the leader of "The Sun - The school of Rena Mirecka". I led "The Sun" from 2017 to 2022, with the support of the Grotowski Institute (Wroclaw- PL). I collaborated with Rena Mirecka for 18 years. In 2021 I have been started a new research in the field of ritual performance arts. Since 2022 I continue this research and share performative pedagogy as an independent artist. In 2022 I have been started a new video art research. In my research as a video artist, I question the self in an existential sense, starting with the plasticity of the body. Red is the colour I contemplate. The eternal Pathos of red. My videos are carnal prayers that investigate Being.https://www.marcobalbidipalma.it/https://www.instagram.com/marco_balbidipalma_performer/
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