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A performance presented as an exhibition in progress at an artist’s atelier, where actions take shape around the costumes, which are none other than an alter ego of the body wearing them. This is how Olivier Saillard and Tilda Swinton have envisioned Embodying Pasolini, an event part of the ROMAISON program, a project dedicated to the relationship between costume and fashion.

From Oedipus Rex, The Decameron, and Arabian Nights, to Salò or the 120 days of Sodom, the costumes – garments, coats, as fragile creations of intertwined and dyed threads – recreate a cinematography “emptied” of the actors’ bodies, in which the performative action takes place. Almost as if they were prisoners of a statuary state, reduced to silence – some never even seen again after shooting – the costumes become the subject and object of an evocative practice.