SEVEN TEARS
- Concept, Direction, Video: Luigi De Angelis
- Costumes: Chiara Lagani
- Vocals: Claron McFadden
- Electronics and Sound Design: Emanuele Wiltsch Barberio
- Video Performers: Andrea Argentieri, Mirto Baliani, Ilenia Carrone, Marco Cavalcoli, Mirko Ciorciari, Consuelo Battiston, Gianni Farina, Adama Gueye, Chiara Lagani, Bet Lihem, Joshua Maduro, Roberto Magnani, Fiorenza Menni, Mauro Milone, Marco Molduzzi, Stefano Toma
- Make-up: Andrea Argentieri
- Video Post Production: Giacomo Salzani
- Organization: Marco Molduzzi, Maria Donnoli
- Production: Fanny & Alexander / E Production, Cosmogram
- Co-production: Muziektheater Transparant
“Why does art so often involve a subject like suffering? Are we nothing more than consumers of others’ pain, or is there truly space in us for compassion? Is there sublime beauty in suffering? Ambiguity? What are the stories of our time that resonate with this suffering? Should art absorb this demand? Speak for it? Does it not risk being consolatory? What responsibility do we have when we look at the suffering of others?”
Year : 2022
To try to answer these questions, Luigi De Angelis, together with Claron McFadden and Emanuele Wiltsch Barberio, creates an installation that consists of a gallery of laments and musical memories from the past, evoking the theme of suffering in art: from Monteverdi to J.C. Bach, from Nina Simone to Giovanni Legrenzi, passing through Barbara Strozzi and John Dowland. Claron McFadden’s voice is the emotional witness of a video polyptych, exploring the echoes of a contemporary Passion: seven Christological figures, inspired by recent news stories, alongside other probable evangelical characters of our time, emerge on seven screens in a progressive via dolorosa of sight and perception.
DEBUT
FTMA Festival, Paris, October 11-16, 2022
Supernova, Rimini, April 12-16, 2023