OPENING
22 February – h. 6 – 9 pm
Admission – up to you
Cocktails by Sciarada

TALK
26 February – h. 3 pm
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The exhibition is realized in collaboration with Seeyousound International Music Film Festival and with the support of VI.MA AUDIO VIDEO Tecnologie.

The Sun Has No Shadow is a screening event exploring techno culture, both as an individual experience and as a collective ritual. Through Rebecca Salvadori’s films Tresor Tapes and The Sun Has No Shadow, the exhibition unfolds following a binary dynamic that activates a generative tension between opposite poles/extremes/points: London/Berlin, archive/affective memory, individual experience/collective ritual. A third film, Empathy, brings into focus silence and portrait. A conversation between the artist Rebecca Salvadori, Felice Moramarco and Carlotta Magistris will follow the screening on the 26th February at 3 P.M.

The Sun Has No Shadow, 2022
is an intimate visual journey across a series of raves, clubs and experimental live performances; a personal film manifesto as well as a tribute to London. Developing further what already learned with film collection Rave Trilogy (2020), The Sun Has No Shadow goes deeper into electronic music communities giving an overarching sense of the London-context but also looking at the intimacy between the people taking part; different meta-narratives portrayed under a very subjective and intimate frame, blending together peripheral nocturnal landscapes, shots of people dancing and moments of collective catharsis with more universal reflections such as matters of general existence and vision of life. The film centres particularly on FOLD club and UNFOLD day rave format which puts the DJ in the middle of the dancefloor. This spatiality becomes the mark of an alternative approach to togetherness, deep physical connection and community-making.

Tresor Tapes, 2022
was commissioned by Tresor Berlin on occasion of the show Tresor 31 Techno, Berlin und die große Freiheit happening between the 08.07 to the 28.08.22 at Kraftwerk, Berlin. Salvadori uses Tresor’s extensive video and sound archives to construct a sister portrait to The Sun Has No Shadow. Played alongside, the two films approach different ways of dealing with personal & collective archives and memory as well as reflections around club documentation.

Empathy, 2019
immerses the viewer in a deep space of silence. Four scenes with close-ups of friends; the silent movement of their lips, the effect of slow motion alienates the cinematic texture of the video, capturing the inner world, their thoughts. The audience become unwitting witnesses of the free hearted conversation. The the extra close-ups and the lack of sound create an intangible space, a space of emotions, estrangement feeling of being.