Francesca Grilli
+ More info- Live performance
- Médiathèque Jean Lévy, Lille
- 30min
- From age 18
- Free
- French Premiere
Sparks
What happens when you leave your future in the hands of a child? In Sparks, Francesca Grilli proposes that we switch the power of authority between children and adults. Are you ready to sign on for the journey?
Sparks has a simple but rather radical structure: the children invent the future, and the adults shut up and listen. After several days of workshops, a group of children from Lille offer to read the hands of the adult spectators. This is a contact point between the different generations, with which the children can become the creators of their own visions of the future. They become oracles, beings charged with mystic knowledge, holders of magical powers. Their faces are hidden behind masks and their voices tell us about our future, a gesture of hope, of breaking with the past: do we dare listen to them?
Accessibility infos :
- Interactions will be in french
Biography(s)
Francesca Grilli (1978; lives and works between Bologna and Bruxelles) utilises a multidisciplinary language focussing on performance, video and installation practices. She has participated in numerous performance art festivals and exhibited solo and collective in international museums and institutions including: MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Roma (2024-2016); Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (2024-2022); Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim (2023); Baltic Circle, Helsinki (2020); Mladi Levi Festival, Lubiana (2020); Kaunas Biennal, Kaunas (2019); Saal Biennal, Tallin (2019); Santarcangelo Festival, Santarcangelo – Rimini (2019-2017); Palais De Tokyo, Parigi (2017); Serralves Foundation, Porto (2017); Netwerk, Aalst (2017); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2017-2015); Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück (2017); Centrale Fies, Fies – Trento (2017 – 2006); MAXXI, Roma (2016); Padiglione Italia, 55. Biennale Arte di Venezia (2013); MADRE, Napoli (2011); MACRO, Roma (2012); Serpentine Gallery, London (2009); MAMBO, Bologna (2010), Manifesta7, Bolzano (2008).
Credits
Creation : Francesca Grilli.
Sound : Roberto Rettura.
Hand reading : Guido Rossetti.
Text : Azzurra D’Agostino. Gestes : Benno Steinegger.
Design and hat making : Paola Villani.
Photo and video : Carolina Cappelli.
Advice : Chiara Guidi.
Care and distribution : Elena Regazzoni.
Production : Chiara Massari.
Administration : Chiara Fava.
Production : Corpoceleste IT; Santarcangelo Festival, Rimini, Snaporazverein, Samedan.
Coproduction : Welcome to the village, Leeuwarden; SAAL Biennaal, Tallin
Supported by : workspacebrussels, Brussels
