Salome is trope, biblical, modern and contemporary, a mirror of fallen humanity in a world of fallen institutions.
It is the climax of the Spirit of their/our Time in the obsession of sight, in the hypertrophy of the ego, in metaphysical boredom, in the missed glances with what is sacred and ineffable.
It is the door that opens to barbarism, to the post-hangover silence of all that follows the overdose, the belief in some kind of eternal present.
It is an ecstatic and hysterical body, dissolving into a hieratic indolence, macerated in the wait for ‘une chose inconnue’.
It is a soul sitting within itself, drooling with dark gestures, exhausted by solitary ideas and insidious appeals to sacrilege.
Salome is an Elegy to absence, until there is no more light, until all that remains is loss.

Bio

madalena reversa is an artistic project created by Maria Alterno and Richard Pareschi that fuses performing and visual arts.
The research is articulated in the combination of visible and invisible elements, aimed at the composition of certain scenic atmospheres.
The horizon of the artistic investigation dwells in poetry, the sacred and the spirit of the contemporary, creating counterpoints between simulacra of ancient images and perceptive glimpses of our present time. Sound dramaturgy is the place of origin and initiatory material with which the warp of light, design, body and word is manipulated.

madalena reversa has produced the following works:
Salome (2024), Manfred (2022), Romantic Disaster (2021), presented in
venues and festivals such as Triennale Milano, Biennale di Venezia,
Santarcangelo Festival, Festival delle Colline Torinesi, Short Theatre,
Grrranit Scéne Nationale Belfort (FR).