Ophelia (First Study)

A new production by Video Sound Art curated by Laura Lamonea 
For the fourth edition of INCONTRO, the cultural festival by VIDAS

Ophelia, First Study is an attempt to let a voice believed to be lost resurface — Ophelia’s voice, silenced and swept away by the words of others. Drawing from fragments of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the visual universe of Francesca Woodman, she returns — vulnerable yet defiant — into a space in ruins, to give shape once more to what was never heard. Not a discourse, but echoes, fragments, gestures that become dance. In the silence, something slowly mends, like an invisible tear. A figure moving between ending and beginning, between oblivion and rebirth.

Ophelia does not seek to explain or denounce; she is an invitation to dwell within and be permeated by what remains on the margins. Ophelia is no longer a character, but a presence that passes through us, looks at us, and questions us.

This vision takes shape through a proposal by curator Laura Lamonea and the encounter with dancer Giulia Quacqueri.

^{Luca Giacomoni, Ophelia, First Study, with Giuglia Quacqueri. Ph. Luca Del Pia}

18 October 2025, h 20:30
Sala Testori
Palazzina dei Bagni Misteriosi

Performance by Luca Giacomoni
With Giulia Quacqueri
Produced by Video Sound Art for VIDAS

Inspired by Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Translation by Paolo Bertinetti
Curated by Laura Lamonea
Puppet created by Ivan Terpigorev
Head of production Lino Palena

Special thanks to Centro Teatro Attivo
for supporting the production