Shelter Chapter 1 is a performance by the duo Primitive Art—curated by Davide Giannella—encompassing different forms of performative expression, sound research, visual arts within a single experience shared with the audience.
Specifically contextualized for the museum, unfolds inside a twelve square meter metal structure with an essential, almost childlike design, simultaneously a house suspended in the air through mechanical elevators and a permeable skeleton for the viewer’s gaze.
This creates a living environment with its usual contradictions and conflicts, and a scenario which aims to address key issues for the duo: isolation as refuge and form of escapism; the unresolved desire; homesickness; the sense of an elsewhere that is impossible to define or forget; the feeling of a danger to be deciphered and localized.
