RED KITE

When Daniele was little he found himself competing with other children in a kite competition. With great care his father built a kite for him to play with his other peers.

To let it fly, he built the kite with greaseproof paper, the one that the poorest families knew well, because it was used to wrap the foods that the state guaranteed them at low cost. But that paper was too heavy for a kite and when it was time for all the kites to rise into the sky, Daniele’s was the only one who did not rise from the ground due to the heaviness of that paper… Daniele had to deal with this reality, with that tear, with those children, with his father … a trauma of that time and of all his life, because a trauma of that type does not live only for a moment in the mind of a child but, if not properly stitched, it remains a tear much longer.

Anna as a living sculpture is the symbol of a grandmother, of an elderly woman who, in today’s society, is given little importance. The people of Anna’s age are the only ones who can still talk to us about war, hunger, directly experienced and consequently stimulate us to reflect on the risk we run, because by disappearing these figures also the collective memories that are of great importance for all.

Thus Daniele’s text and Anna Fabbri’s physical image, while sewing a child’s dream for a second time, wanted to create a stimulus for reflection for those who participated in the performance.

Red Kite
Performance, installation, video, embroidery drawing on vellum.

Special thanks
Performer: Anna Fabbri
Story: Daniele Schivardi
video: Simone Guttoriello