Marzia Migliora

I have to get that world back, to change this one," says Laura. Then she searches among the memories, letters, friends, piano, mountain, snow where she was born, the house where her adoptive grandmother lived (and died): Yenia Dumnova. It is a retrospective search, a historical and affective reconstruction made of fragments, memory, documents, fiction. As she unravels Yenia’s secret story, Laura will recover her own: her relationship with exile, time, family, art, adulthood and death. In this emotional journey, sometimes fictionalized, sometimes narrated by Laura Paredes, the author meets the stories of those who met Yania and remember her with the same wonder and affection as when they frequented her in that convulsive twentieth century.

The artist asked the musician Francesco Dillon to produce sounds starting from the interaction with the rooms and debris of the Palazzo del Lavoro building in Turin, to then integrate them with his cello performance of some excerpts from Mozart's Requiem in D minor k626. The struggle that is established between the funeral observance that the piece produces and the attempts to listen to the space in the expression of its ultimate potential for the production of meaning, is resolved in a visual tension that manifests the parable between life and death on which "Forza lavoro" develops.