Back to the real life

A neverending journey about what and where reality is, in place where everything is aimed at the perfect creation of a parallel, floating world. Going deeper, a world behind the scenes shows up as a space of vibrant everyday life.

Back to the real life is a visual and exploratory quest inside a cruise ship through a gaze that recontextualizes it, interpreting it in its entirety as a performance machine. From the choice of sets, to the stories it tells, going through the many doors that lead behind the scenes, to the discovery of the places where, in a whirlwind of frenetic steps, everything comes to life. A place where everything is aimed at the perfect creation of a parallel, floating world. A bubble in which everything flows with predetermined rhythms and modes, a place where the reality of life is replaced by an alternative reality, equally concrete and believable. Each person finds itself immersed in the same space-time, agreeing to live a shared experience, and this is how the ship, between curtains and sets, becomes a theater.

A methodical and orienting glance is related to a fleeting and unexpected one. An exploration of the under construction’s scene through the vision of a disassembled reality, merges with a situationalist drift, a disorientation where reality is overcome by the oneiric, placing itself outside of time, within a non-place, which presents itself, however, as an active and pulsating subject, an autonomous producer of meanings and connections. When the ship sets sail, the exploration deepens. A maze of corridors, staircases, doors and rooms, even hidden from sunlight, whose the only dialogue with the outside world is the thud of the waves crashing against the bow on the heavy seas days.
It is the backstage where our characters find their space, embodying the waiter, the cook, the dancers and the stagehands, so that when the show begins, it never stops. A world unto itself, a heterotopic place, free but fatally constrained by the infinity of the sea, untethered from the flow of time, in which feeling elsewhere is its essence. And so it is that, evoking the utopia of a unified world and the dream of a universe to explore, the journey begins.