Francesca Sproccati, a Swiss artist working in the field of performance art, returns to LAC with a work in which she asks what it means to “resist” today in the face of Western limbic capitalism, the manipulation of human emotions for the sake of uninterrupted consumption of goods and relationships, and the emergence of increasingly less concealed forms of fascism.

With Venir meno, Sproccati invites us to enter the palace of Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, and immerse ourselves as a collective body in darkness. From this position, far from sight and connected to the deepest states of being, two shimmering figures emerge. At times, they could be mistaken for visions of Hypnos himself, who, by putting us to sleep forever, would free us from work, competition and the exhaustion to which performance society condemns us; at other times, these shape-shifters seem to take on the appearance and intentions of Battista, Francesca's great-grandfather, a partisan who helped liberate Italy from the fascists, embodying that energy of collective struggle and resistance against the injustices of the world.
In this immersive environment, the performers tell their stories through live music and textual inserts. From the impossible encounters between these two figures, their models and their mirrors, a space of unfiltered sharing opens up, to try to rethink ourselves together as a temporary community.