The marine ocean and its countless faces, a source of beauty and terror. The ocean that swallows human bodies or spits them out, granting them grace and saving them from shipwreck. The ocean that can be a hell of memories buried in water, or a purgatory of passage for migrants waiting to glimpse new lands, or a paradise of speculation, for environmental abuse and devastation.
Four paintings that investigate the ancestral relationship between man and nature, between a rebellious son and a robbed mother, between an ambitious guest and a vengeful mistress. Four paintings for as many characters and as many acting tests. We begin with Ishmael, a literary character who was already the first-person narrator of Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick. We find him on stage as the only survivor of the massacre of the Pequod, the ship that under the mad leadership of Captain Ahab tried in vain to capture the mythological white whale. We watch him dangle as if drunk on nothing, deprived by the catastrophe, now, of any purpose in life other than that of an eternal witness who, facing the resurfacing of demons from the water, brings back to the attention of the spectator fragments of memory of those famous days of expedition at sea hunting for the cetacean.
From the 19th century of the expedition we then take a journey through space and time that ends in the present day, arriving at a final scene in which today’s current events burst out and ask us to appeal in the words of a journalist who tries, with her fight for correct information, to contain and combat environmental disasters caused by the petrochemical industries.
Violent waters and violated waters, then. The same dichotomy that we can find in the remaining two paintings, in the two characters in the middle of our journey. On one side we have a refugee at sea, balanced between life and death, driven in the fight to stay afloat only by his own watchful gaze that awaits the miracle on the horizon, in a strip of land. On the other, a businesswoman at the head of a hedge fund. A metropolitan figure, apparently distant from the voice of the ocean, until the latter, following the explosion of an oil platform, comes to claim its tribute, upsetting the economic affairs of the protagonist.
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