Marco Noviello | Alessandro Grisendi
2025 – A weave of memory and future, where gesture becomes a wave dancing on the skin of architecture.
Imagine a dancer whose body does not merely move through space but becomes the driving force of a greater, ancestral energy. Every movement generates consequences that propagate beyond the boundaries of flesh: their gestures influence a virtual body of water that takes shape on the building’s surface, following its lines, inhabiting its cavities, transforming solid matter into a fluid, shifting mirror.
Water – symbol of life, memory, and transformation – becomes the medium through which past and future merge into a liquid, pulsating present. It is not just projection but living presence: it responds, reacts, remembers. It carries the memory of primordial oceans, of rains that carved mountains, of rivers that shaped civilizations. And now, on the skin of architecture, this memory meets the contemporary gesture, creating a dialogue between what has been and what may yet become.
The traces of archaic dances are reflected in contemporary movements, as if the performer’s body contained echoes of forgotten rituals, of ancient celebrations tied to water’s natural cycles. The building’s surface transforms into a vast liquid mirror, a reactive organism that responds to movement with its own luminous existence. Every gesture of the dancer generates waves that ripple, break against the edges of the architecture, and reform into ever-new shapes, in an eternal cycle that reflects the very nature of life.
In this dance between body and architecture, between gesture and projection, the memory of movements dissolves in the virtual water and is continually reborn, transformed. Nothing is lost, everything transforms: each wave carries the trace of those that preceded it, each movement contains the echo of all past gestures. It is a process of continuous regeneration, where the end of one cycle is always the beginning of another.
This work is not just a visual experience but an invitation to rediscover our deep connection with primordial forces and their transformative potential. It reminds us that we are made of water, that our bodies are primarily liquid, that our emotions flow like currents. It invites us to feel the connection between our individual gesture and the great forces that move the world.
Water, like culture, never stops: it changes shape, travels through continents and centuries, blends with other waters, with other stories, yet always carries a trace of the past. It is both memory and oblivion, preservation and transformation. And we, dancing with it on the skin of architecture, become part of this fluid story, of this eternal movement between what we have been and what we can become.
CONCEPT: OOOPStudio
DANCER: Ivana Mastroviti
3D – WATER SIMULATION – MOTION CAPTURE: Marco Noviello
SOUNDSCAPE: Alessandro Grisendi
COMPOSITING – EDITING: Alessandro Grisendi