The sacred and the waters

Artistic reinterpretation of heritage research: performance and collective exhibition “The Sacred and the Waters”

The project “The Sacred and the Waters” was born from the collaboration of the The sacred and the waters (EPO) with the Ecomuseum of Vanoi (EDV) and L’OFFICINA Imagination Lab.

The project involved researchers, artists and enthusiasts, on the theme of the sacred and the waters, aiming to ensure that sources, springs, rivers and traditions return to irrigate our interior landscape and give shape to the sacred.

Numerous creatives participated in the project, each elaborating with their own art, their own representation of the sacred relating to the physical and symbolic element of water in its various forms, taking into consideration the identity of the Alto Orvietano territory.

The work was divided into two parts. An event was called “I SEE WHALES” which will consist of a walk to recall the sacredness of the Ancient Cetacean Sanctuary of Bargiano – Allerona, combined with readings of texts by Nicola Dal Falco, a choral installation in cotton muslin created by the creative group “The sea that was here”, Giorgia Capoccia’s weavings and Francesca Arcuri’s contemporary dance performance.

The sanctuary of Bargiano allowed us to feel the presence of the sea that no longer exists and of the cetaceans that have left traces there, a symbol of rebirth and healing. Inhabiting the sacred means inhabiting the invisible.

The other was the collective exhibition at L’OFFICINA Imagination Lab in which the spectator was invited to cross a threshold of the sacred to enter a sensorial experience discovering the works by Valeria Pierini, Giorgia Capoccia, Simona Stollo, Martina Biancarini, Michele Marchesani and to read the collection of prose and poems “Salus per aquam” by Nicola Dal Falco.

Participants: Rosenda Arcioni artistic director of L’OFFICINA Imagination Lab, artist and therapist, Francesca Arcuri dancer, Yoga, Meditation and Movement teacher, Martina Biancarini videographer, Giorgia Capoccia textile artist, Nicola Dal Falco writer, poet and journalist, Michele Marchesani musician and shiatsu instructor, Valeria Pierini artist and photographer, Simona Stollo ceramist. Making use of the heritage research of: Fiorenza Bortolotti, architect, member of the Ecomuseum Orientation Committee, Nicola Dal Falco writer, Massimo Luciani coordinator of the Ecomuseum of the Orvieto Landscape, Enrico Petrangeli anthropologist, member of the Ecomuseum Orientation Committee, Riccardo Testa architect, inventor, environmental educator, member of the EPO Board of Directors.