Vanishing Place is a place where time, understood in its ephemeral nature, is generated and lost, like the emotions of the present and memory itself.

It is a moving landscape made of bodies, gestures, and images with blurred, elusive contours, where every manifested action carries within itself its opposite: its own absence. It is a surreal space in which time is removed from itself.

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Becoming invisible and disappearing from the observer’s gaze is a condition that must be established from the very beginning. Luna Cenere has developed a personal approach and research method that continues to observe the body as a landscape. Her investigation focuses on the body’s ability to abstract itself and become a poetic element, while never abandoning the concreteness of form and gesture.

Through the construction and continuous transformation of an inner landscape, Luna reveals the body in different forms and states of being. Visually and emotionally, we experience the infinite elements that constitute it. At the same time, the spectator is constantly invited to experience nudity and their own projections onto it, whether emotional or conceptual.

Through a practice that generates space and emptiness within the performers, Luna makes them “disappear” in order to bring forth gestures, forms, and details of the body. By focusing on the space between bodies, the quality of breath and slowness, the movement of light, the architectural elements of the stage, and the soundscape, she creates a surreal landscape that is constantly shifting.

In her work, Luna Cenere places great importance on the concept of “collective memory”, seeking to express it through one or more images or actions, allowing it to emerge through a perceptual reconstruction while activating the observer’s own pre-existing memories.

Luna uses the stage as a space where multiple levels of interpretation can potentially coexist, working through different layers of meaning and perception. In “real” life this cannot happen, whereas the poetics of the stage metaphorises the body and space, allowing the performers to become a collective-in-being.

By depersonalising bodies, concealing certain parts of them (especially the face), and becoming “invisible”, the performers allow the audience to perceive much more than an individual personal story. It is a process of translation and transfer that occurs on an invisible level, requiring deep listening from the performers and a high degree of discipline.

The performance becomes a bridge between history, personal memory, collective memory, and the present moment. The obsolescence of images becomes contemporary through their re-elaboration and through the use Luna chooses to make of them in support of the initial concept, which itself becomes the subject of investigation.