AMBRA CASTAGNETTI

Surgica is a choral and installative performance created site specifically for a residency at Villa Clea (Milano).
The performance constructs a closed, almost aseptic environment, in which the domestic is progressively emptied of its reassuring function to become a space of psychic projection and compulsive reiteration. The seven performers move through space and an industrial soundscape which progressively shifts into a climax. It explores themes such as medicalization and normalization of the female body, expressing the short circuit between an aesthetic of perfection and a disintegrative drive: the domestic becomes the stage of a shared psychosis, while the body — rather than adhering to a normative ideal — reveals itself as a site of excess, deformation, and resistance.
The performance lasts 10 minutes but it was performed many times in a row, in a time span of two hours, resulting in a time based work of resistance and repetition.

Opening performance of the artist’s solo show Panico Efimero at Mambo Bogotà curated by Eugenio Viola sponsored by Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

Art direction: Ambra Castagnetti

Performers: Alejandre, Dani, Rio, Yoshka, Ambra

Music: Jacopo Sacchi

Video: Juan Yaruro

Costume design: Arlo Vago and Summer

Styling: Veergie and Alexa

Hair: Gummo

Makeup: Bleyd