The series unfolds within the context of the project Study for a Process-Based Performance on Abortion (2024), from which it draws both the costumes and its scenographic details. Comprising seven images, the work continues the duo’s ongoing process of cataloguing and analysing gestures, specifically staging a selection of positions associated with abortion, the mechanisms that regulate access to it, the institutions involved, and the struggles around it. A deliberate play with perspective places the viewer in a lowered position, looking up at the artists’ figures. This vantage point accentuates the tension between vulnerability and power: the bodies appear at once enlarged, imposing, and subtly distorted. The titles of the individual photographs — Squat, Sit-in, Submission, Monster, Pointing, Chaining Oneself, Raised Fist — appear to name a single, legible action, while the gestures themselves are performed in ways that resist any straightforward reading, revealing instead their inherent ambiguity and the multiple, often conflicting meanings that emerge through the interaction between the two bodies and the surrounding context. 

Gesti di relazione. Studio per una performance processo sull’aborto, 2025, Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper, framed, 100 x 70 cm. Ph. Mirai Pulvirenti. 

Performance Processo

Gesti di relazione. Studio per una performance processo sull’aborto

Photo series

2025

Series of 7 photographs