Re: trace
Live Audio-Visual Performance - Spazio Kina Rome - October 2025

Re:Trace (I–IV) is a live audiovisual performance with a duration of approximately 35-40 minutes, exploring the fragility, stratification and persistence of memory through the interplay of sound and image. Structured in four movements, the work navigates different states of the purity of repetition, the weight of personal memory, the distortion of blurred impressions, and the collective echo of trauma and conflict. At the core of the project lies a reflection on the unstable nature of memory: what we remember never fully coincides with what once was. Repetition, seemingly static, reveals itself as transformative—each return carries a subtle variation: a different light, an unexpected inclination, a changed observer. This is not a process of copying, but of reconstruction: a partial and fragile reemergence, like an image reflected on a rippled surface.Certain sounds return as echoes—not identical, but familiar enough to awaken suspended sensations. The mind enters a tunnel of thoughts where time and space stretch, and memory ceases to function as a linear archive, becoming instead a living matter composed of silences, distortions, fleeting details and sudden glitches. Memory appears and disappears, fragments and reforms, leaving behind only its trace: a smell, a sound, a pause, an image slowly fading. The work also suggests the existence of memories that do not belong solely to the individual, but in habit the collective body of society: shared events, historical traumas, experiences that have been removed or denied. Some choose disconnection; others remain attuned to the underlying noise. Yet even what has been filtered out or forgotten persists beneath the surface, ready to resurface in moments of rupture.Through a sonic language that incorporates noise, drone, ambient, and experimental electronic aesthetics, Re:Trace moves between stillness and intensity, contemplation and disruption. Certain passages invite a meditative state, while others confront the listener with abrasive sound textures, rhythmic pulsations, and sudden distortions. Re:Trace unfolds as a space that is simultaneously intimate and political, poetic and sensorial—a place where memory is not only evoked, but also transformed, disturbed, and ultimately retraversed.
Remembrance ; I hear the sound again. It repeats. Not the same, never the same—but close enough to pull me in. A tunnel forms. Narrow. Pulsing. I follow. Light bends. Time stretches. My thoughts echo back to me, warped, layered, haunting. Memory isn’t a place.It’s a texture—woven from silence and sound. It fades. It sharpens.It vanishes—and then returns in fragments. A scent... a glitch a pause in time, not the memory itself, but its afterimage

Hazy Image; Some feelings are not felt anymore—but they echo.They live in the cracks of what we forgot. Ghosts not of people but of states of being. They do not haunt.They hover. Faint,formless, and familiar. Still here.
Eagles of doom ; Some memories are not ours alone. They belong to the many. But not everyone remembers, some choose to disconnect. These memories glitch and distort leaving echoes in the static. The weight of what was presses on all though some filter it out, as if muting the signal.
Time does not erase it, It lingers in the noise beneath the surface a broken loop that keeps repeating even when it seems silent. And it waits in the broken moments. to remind us of what remains alive, even in the glitch of memory.

Virgine ; Repetition is never still. Though the gesture may seem the same, no two returns carry the same weight. The moment changes. The light—the angle— the observer. What we call “the same”, is always already different. Repetition reveals. It doesn’t copy, it re-casts.
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Audio-Visual fixed media
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