Bianco-Valente, Love Is in the Air, 2022. Project for Dynamo Camp, San Marcello Pistoiese. Photo by Sara Bargiacchi.
Invited by Dynamo Camp to lead a series of workshops with the parents of the children with disabilities hosted at the facility in San Marcello Pistoiese, Bianco-Valente envisioned a collective intervention able to bring out, through a liberating act, the many forms of unexpressed energy that these parents accumulate in their daily lives, because of the small and large challenges imposed by bureaucracy, by school, by a society that often seems to lag a step behind their real needs.
Mothers and fathers forced, again and again, to face every situation while keeping calm, as a primary form of protection for their family. An induced self-control that does not allow stress and other accumulated energy to discharge outward.
The parents were given a hammer, making it possible to transfer energy from the person onto a block of Carrara marble, the material of monumental and celebratory sculpture. In that liberating gesture, all the potential energy held back was finally able to leave the body and take shape on the stone, where it remains crystallized, visible, and able to occupy its own place in the world.
The four works born from the performance were later put up for sale, and all proceeds were used to fund Dynamo Camp's activities.
Bianco-Valente, Love Is in the Air, 2022. Project for Dynamo Camp, San Marcello Pistoiese.
Bianco-Valente, Love Is in the Air, 2022. Project for Dynamo Camp, San Marcello Pistoiese.
Bianco-Valente, Love Is in the Air, 2022. Project for Dynamo Camp, San Marcello Pistoiese. Photo by Sara Bargiacchi.
Bianco-Valente, Love Is in the Air, 2022. Project for Dynamo Camp, San Marcello Pistoiese.
Bianco-Valente, Love Is in the Air, 2022. Project for Dynamo Camp, San Marcello Pistoiese. Photo by Sara Bargiacchi.
Bianco-Valente, Love Is in the Air, 2022. Project for Dynamo Camp, San Marcello Pistoiese. Photo by Sara Bargiacchi.
Bianco-Valente, Love Is in the Air, 2022. Project for Dynamo Camp, San Marcello Pistoiese.
Bianco-Valente, Love Is in the Air, 2022. Project for Dynamo Camp, San Marcello Pistoiese.
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