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1. an ancestral image of blood, but also a face 2. Not (yet) forgotten

Not (yet) forgotten

“How do you tell a story? How does a story get told from fractured bits? What happens when you forget your story? What happens when you really remember your story? What happens when you repeat it too many times? What happens when somebody plasters their story onto you? It’s not about me talking about who I am at all. It’s a voice that kind of goes, what do you want? How do you see? Who am I? It’s mostly questions and zero answers.”
Laurie Anderson

This site-specific intervention unfolds as a poetic, visual essay across the various training stations of the church/gym. Not (yet) forgotten is an expanded publication where, instead of traditional bookbinding elements, the cohesive forces are the bodies-in-training that animate and enliven the space, the ambient sounds, the scents, and the shared energy. You are invited to navigate through the different stations at your own pace — pause, engage with the texts, or move on to the next

an ancestral image of blood, but also a face
Film installation, 2024

“As my indigenous Chilean mother Pedro Lembel said, I do not know why I come, but I am here. In this Uranian apartment that overlooks the gardens of Athens. And I’ll stay a while. At the crossroads. Because intersection is the only place that exists. There are no opposite shores. We are always at the crossing of paths. And it is from this crossroad that I address you, like the monster who has learned the language of humans. […] I have no soul and no body. I have an apartment of Uranus, which certainly places me far from most Earthlings, but not so far you can’t come to see me. Even if only in dream…”
Paul B. Preciado, An apartment on Uranus

ARTIST BIO

  • My name is Sam Zanardo, and I am a visual and performance artist from Italy. With a background in dance and martial arts, concepts of endurance, constriction, and repetition are central to my practice. Exploring physicality aimed at exhaustion allows me to investigate power dynamics within established structures and address subjectivity as a continuous process of de-composition and re-configuration. Currently, I explore storytelling through choreographic practices that involve performance, filmmaking, and writing. I research folklore, rituality, and magic in Southern Italy, weaving religious tales with personal narratives and media archives. These fragments are interlaced with diverse plots, creating new ornaments.