performance, creation, and artistic collaboration Antonio Tagliarini, Barbara Novati
Fra De Isabella, Gianmaria Borzillo, Nicole De Leo
music Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee
lighting and set design Cosimo Ferrigolo, Valeria Foti
project care and promotion Giulia Traversi
E la bella stanza è vuota takes inspiration from Cindy Lee’s album Diamond Jubilee – a series of impressions guiding the creation of the work, just like the energy and spirit of stage presence. The album was released online in 2024, in clear opposition to the music market and streaming platforms and unexpectedly became a phenomenon within the underground music scene. Two months after its release, Patrick Flegel/Cindy Lee withdrew into a silence that remains unexplained. In an effort to reject and escape success, they had made a decisive break. Borzillo starts from the profoundly authentic and anarchic act, bringing to life an elusive, antiestablishment vision – almost like a hallucination – on stage, celebrating above all the unique personalities involved in the creative process. The result is an event that emerges from nothing, erupts quietly and clandestinely, only to disappear again, as if nothing had ever happened. The album becomes the starting point for a dramaturgy that seeks to explore the elusive and imperceptible relationship with the other, attempting to engage with the commemorative impulse at the core of photography. Nan Goldin, for instance, takes photographs in the impossible attempt to grasp her sister Barbara. The photograph, like a cast, captures the moment and brings back those who are gone. What remains is only the testimony of a coming together of solitudes. The mystery of relationships unfolds through a photographic session with five performers: a work that seeks to glimpse a plural and varied humanity passing before us.