Violetta Cottini

Do fairies have a tail?

30/01/2025, Cagliari

⟶ Thursday 30 January, 7pm
Sa Manifattura, Cagliari

Like coagulated air, dissolving and leaving space for all that is apparently small or distant, invisible and ephemeral. In an endless choreography through precise manifestations, like spells in a thousand pieces. A presence and an absence that disentangles and decomposes like our own perceptions.
The question is constant: how do we transform, become, disappear, make ourselves small, imagine ourselves elsewhere, fairy tails?

In a process of raising awareness of how we stand in relation to the world and the mirages that populate it, the attempt to rewrite our own mythologies becomes holograms and depths, pierces the backdrop and allows itself to be smelt.
What if all this is a portal?
What is there once you cross the threshold?
This enquiry takes the crooked form of a riddle, a forest, a hole and a tail, an abandoned house, its remains and their ‘vitalism’. The evocation of a secret place, the attempt to create a perceptive experience beyond the human dimension becomes material.
The title itself, like a magic formula, seeks to let those who wish to enter into the folds of something mysterious that is unknown. Perhaps only by sharpening our senses will we be able to glimpse the creatures that hover in our blurred memories.

Concept and direction: Violetta Cottini
In collaboration with: Alessandra Indolfi and Roberta Indolfi
Performance: Alessandra Indolfi and Roberta Indolfi
Sound curation:Violetta Cottini, Alessandra Indolfi and Roberta Indolfi
Set design: Violetta Cottini, Alessandra Indolfi and Roberta Indolfi
Video and photo shooting: Olimpia Pierucci and Alessandro Gagliardo
Production: Fuorimargine – Production Centre for Dance and Performing Arts of Sardinia
Winner project ERetici 2024