PROJECT BY CHIARA VITELLOZZI

“Ossessione” by Claudio Composti

“Everything interesting happens in the shadows, really. Nothing is known about the real history of men.” Celine – Journey to the End of the Night Night. It is there that the obsessions take shape and become a giant monster to fight against. It is there that the torments of Clare’s soul come to life. In a dreamlike journey in which wakefulness and sleep alternate her roles as victim and executioner, in a private Grand Guignol theater. Her everyday life enters overbearingly into the shadows of that room, from which she cannot get out, in a continuous obsession that mixes memory, hallucination, perhaps desire. The body becomes a medium to express the discomfort and fear of loneliness, of abandonment. It is presence rather than body. It is idea of self. It shows us places not places, rooms of the mind, anchored to reality only by a few moments when it peers out the window at the outside world, or perhaps oblivion. It is not given to know. Only to return to the obsessive loop of memory, to that bed that becomes a symbol of transition and transformation, necessarily passing through pain and death to be reborn into the light and make that inner darkness a bulwark of courage and change.