SEEKING UNICORNS. A unicorn, a creature moved by the desire to assert its presence in the world. Chiara Bersani continues her study of the body, keeper of a unique and unrepeatable story. A body that identifies as the perceptual entity of the other as a magnet, influenced by the revolutionary manipulation of distances between individuals. The unicorn is a mythological animal, although it does not have a shape defined in the myths in which it is told: sometimes it has the shape of an ox and sometimes a horse. In Seeking Unicorns the artist wishes to compensate it for the wrongs suffered, giving herself entirely to it. She wants to give him a story, a love, a choice. Welcoming its bewilderment through an idea of ​​a political body, a body that responds to its social function at the very moment in which it chooses to immerse itself in society. Those who meet it cannot avoid giving them meaning, interpreting it, creating expectations around it. Seeking Unicorns also tells of Chiara Bersani’s challenge, her life as a “disabled” performer, but able to give herself completely to her fragile and uprooted imaginary animal. The performance is designed for non-theatrical spaces: empty, full, silent, crowded. Spaces whose light and history ask to be listened to and inhabited. Spaces where the unicorn tries to find itself in a new form, where, by stripping off its best clothes, it renounces the tales of the theater to start a journey of eyes and breaths destined to be different for each audience.

“Nothing is known about the unicorn. Its roots are lost in the succession of distracted genres of human beings. What happens if in the collective imagination will appear a figure with mythological traits yet orphaned by a myth that motivates and describes its existence? Is it born a symbol. Fragile. Uprooted. Chiara Bersani, 98 cm tall, self-proclaims the unicorn’s flesh, muscles and bones. Not knowing its heart, I will try to give it my breath, my eyes.”