Utopia Gym

In the performanceUtopia Gym the athletic body becomes sign and language. Sporting gestures are transformed into a corporeal alphabet that communicates through shapes, tensions and stasis, elaborating a syntax of movement where each athletic position assumes semantic and narrative value. The artist places at the center of her performances a profound reflection on the body as a territory of individual and collective meanings.
Bodies in performance enter the exhibition context establishing formal and conceptual relationships with the works on display. Athletes from different sports disciplines become protagonists of a performance where each gesture, each position maintained for long minutes, is charged with aesthetic and symbolic values. Thus a system of correspondences is generated in which the athletes’ physical presence redefines the perception of the exhibition space and of the works themselves, activating new readings and meanings. The sporting sequences evoke the great Venetian sculptural tradition — from Antonio Canova to the masters of marble — creating a temporal bridge between classical art and contemporary practice. The project was developed in collaboration with Fondazione Bentegodi and Rugby srl ssd.