O/Z - Atlas of a theatre journey
About Fanny & Alexander
The theatre company Fanny & Alexander, founded by Luigi de Angelis and Chiara Lagani, had its beginnings in Ravenna in 1992. In over ten years of activity, the company, consisting almost entirely of people under thirty, has produced more than twenty artistic events (theatre shows, film and video productions, installations, performances, photography exhibitions, lectures and seminars) and has also organized festivals and revues. From the early shows to its current projects, which have been inspired by the childhood figures described by Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) and Nabokov (Lolita, Ada), Fanny & Alexander have tried to transfigure the literary page into a 'theatrical ultra-world'. For Fanny & Alexander the theatre is a field where different languages and techniques meet, from body and vocal work to the electronic and from video to music. It is a theatre of absolute make believe, made up of dreams and a language with lyrical strains.
The exhibition is a deep imaginal exploration through the guide archetypes of the journey of Fanny & Alexander in the wonderful world of OZ. Some guide tables of key images in mutual dialogue are the rhetorical pivot to the deployment of the key themes of the project, summarized in as many headwordsc: waiting, longing, cyclone, home ... From these foundational primary cores or thematic tables, presented here and also reproduced in the homonymous book published by Ubulibri, will be spontaneous for the viewer to retrace the story of the project, and fun to discover it further through real flashes of vision stolen to the scene: the photographs of the shows. In fact, the exhibition will also be a selection of images of the shows of the Project OZ created by Enrico Fedrigoli, a photographer who has been working with the group. The exhibition is dedicated to Franco Quadri.
The exhibition also features two video installations: Rebus per Ada "Rebus for Ada" and Villa Venus (Il giardino delle delizie) "Villa Venus (The Garden of Delights)" by the project Ada, Cronaca Familiare, "Ada, Family Chronicle" , Ubu Special Prize 2005.
Conception: Luigi de Angelis and Chiara Lagani
Photographs: Enrico Fedrigoli
Videos: ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup
Music: Mirto Baliani
Graphic design: Luigi de Angelis