Reflecting Pasolini - Ruediger Glatz

Curator: Alessio de'Navasques Ruediger Glatz first recorded the strength of absence in a performance entitled Embodying Pasolini whose worldwide pre-premiere was held at the Mattatoio in Rome in June 2021, in which internationally renowned actress Tilda Swinton, who won the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020, and curator and fashion historian Olivier Saillard explored, through the sculptural monumentality of Danilo Donati’s costumes, the memory of Pasolini’s characters who had worn them. Under Saillard’s guiding hand, Swinton, with her physique at once diaphanous yet strong, sought in the holes in the fabric, in the void of the folds of these inanimate objects, in their perception both material and immaterial, the very essence of Pasolini’s cinema, giving a performance of vibrant emotional expansion. In the exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni a complete cycle of photographs conjures up the performance experience in the Mattatoio as thought it were a “time room” where Glatz’s lens has managed to capture the magnetism of the action. Through the use of extended or multiple exposures, he uses doubles and reflections to convey the transfiguration of the actress in the pathos of her peformance. The light precisely impresses the reflection of a “personification” that touches not only the various characters but also Pasolini himself.