Doubt and wonder in the hands of a beast.

Encounter, checkmate.

Hair and caresses stirred by vanitas. For me? For you?

A portrait of two, for two, between what we are and what, inevitably, in the encounter with the other, becomes something else.

Being as a pair, exposing oneself to the other as to an irreducible difference, where the caress is measured against friction and harmony cuts through conflict.

Figures oscillating between human and animal, primitive and childlike, allowing a dimension of artifice and magic to emerge, within which the act of combing one’s hair asserts itself as an ambiguous practice.

Between care and control, a discipline that can turn into fury.

Being in relationship reveals itself as a field of forces in which the bestial transfigures order and wonder; as an unexpected creation, it restores tranquillity, touching upon the public dimension of the gaze: judgement, consent, expectation, rejection.

REPLICA begins with an encounter. A duo, a shared journey: that of Abbondanza / Bertoni, an archive that emerges as an echo, a memory, observed by another duo, Panzetti / Ticconi, bearers of other memories.