Absentia

© Photograph by Andrea Loria

Absentia
Videodance project

Concept Vera Livia Garcia and Alessandro Olla
Dancer Vera Livia Garcia
Music by Alessandro Olla

The central poetics running through the project is the sense of absence/presence: absence of history and presence of time.

“Abandoned places, ruins, are no one’s memory, yet they offer themselves to those who walk through them as a past that seems to have been lost from view, forgotten, and yet still capable of speaking to them. A past that the observer survives.”
El Tiempo en Ruinas by Marc Augé

Absentia is part of a broader project developed in abandoned places: former factories, railway stations, and houses.

Short dance video filmed in the Robinson Cork Factory in Portalegre, Portugal, 2017.