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Performance
Perle sparse – Perles fanné par tous
Vashish Soobah
March 15 – 16, 2025
Two shows: 6pm and 7.30pm
Running time: 30'
What do you take with you when you migrate? Visual artist Vashish Soobah was born in Catania to Mauritian parents. He retains an image of his country of origin: an immense sugarcane field that unfolds in front of his grandmother’s house. The plantations are linked to the slave society that imprisoned Mauritius for centuries, but also to the genesis of séga, the country’s traditional music. Like intangible baggage, Soobah’s mother and father brought those songs, which similar to water played a key role in daily and community life, with them to Italy. Perle sparse explores the theme of travel, diaspora, and return, from Mauritius to Europe and from Europe to Mauritius. A multimedia geographic map that traces a narrative and sensory journey through memories with a poetic vein of delicate beauty.
Vashish Soobah (1994) is a visual artist born in Sicily to Mauritian parents, raised in Northern Italy, trained in London, and currently working in Milan. His video, photographic, performance, and sound work explores the root causes and inherent social mechanisms of African migration in the global context, with a focus on its implications in Western societies. His art projects also stem from his need to address, precisely and in detail, his position as a Mauritian diasporic subject in Italy, that is, as a brown (and therefore not black) Afro-descendant with a genealogy stemming from Southeast Asia. His work has been exhibited at Madragoa in Portugal, MA*GA in Gallarate, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Guarene, Almanac Inn in Turin, Marsel in Milan, and Spazio Oberdan. He presented the documentary Nanì at the 28th FESCAAAL.
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Info
Performance in Italian, French and Mauritian Creole with Italian and English subtitles
Due to ongoing works in Triennale, the theater is not accessible by lift. To avoid the stairs, enter through the gate in the park, in Viale Alemagna. The entrance is also accessible to people with disabilities.
Credits
A project by: Vashish Soobah
Dramaturgy: Muna Mussie
With the support of: FONDO Network per la creatività emergente developed by Santarcangelo Festival with AMAT Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali, Centrale Fies, Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale, Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee, Fondazione I Teatri – Reggio Emilia, Fuorimargine / Centro di produzione della danza in Sardegna, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino / Centro di Residenza Emilia-Romagna, Lavanderia a Vapore / Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, OperaEstate Festival Veneto / CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Ravenna Teatro, SCARTI Centro di Produzione Teatrale d’Innovazione della Liguria, Teatro Pubblico Campano, Teatro Pubblico Pugliese – Consorzio Regionale per le Arti e la Cultura, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Triennale Milano Teatro
