THE BLACK THEATRE
by Giampiero Assumma
The Black Theatre represents a series of images, marked by both intimacy and mystery, born from seemingly unrelated fragments that have been isolated from their original photographic context, and joined by an unmistakable backdrop that gives no prominence to any other element: not even to the light.
Situations appear, transformed, with a melancholic depth, intertwined with poetry and mysterious attraction, as the observer is transported by the main protagonist, into a world dominated by imagination.
This Black, becomes a portal into another world; a world in which 'Black' is the fundamental truth amidst violence, sex, power, madness, even death.
Through this curtain of shadow, you observe characters performing on a stage that becomes the theatre of existence, with a dialogue impossible of full comprehension, and scenes that have a relationship with the divine.
Identity is an impossible concept, and so the figures appear totally isolated, liberated, even, by this dark guise, through which the true essence of self is lost.
The darkness is the only true performer, representing all of life's unknowns.
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