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Mémoire de l’Avenir
A non-political, non-religious organization guided by its ethical charter,
elle utilise les arts et les cultures comme outils de dialogue et de compréhension.
Riccarda Montenero
VERTIGE !
The Black Hole
© Riccarda Montenaro
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14 NOV 2025
PRESS
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PERFORMANCE
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NOCTURNE
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14 November 2025 | 18PM30–9 PM
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– PRESENTATION –
FILIPPO BRUSCHI – INTERPRÉTATION
MARIANA UNGUREANU – MUSIC
14 November – 14 December 2025
Mémoire de l’Avenir (MDA) / Humanities, Arts and Society (HAS)
Host
Riccarda Montenero
with her new work
VERTIGE !
The Black Hole
Drawn from the photographic animation film project Vertige, this chapter explores the evocative image of the black hole — a mysterious force that swallows both light and matter.
Transposed to humanity, it becomes a metaphor for war and chaos, which consume conscience and humanity itself.
My works address urgent themes:
violence against peoples, women, and children,
exclusion, identity.
Skulls and cries,
recurring in the scenes,
emerge as symbols of erasure and transformation.
Riccarda Montenero
© Riccarda Motenero
ABOUT
Humanity has always sought to make sense of its realities,
in its pursuit of progress and change
— human rights, gender equality,
climate change, migration, plural identities,
health and care,
access to knowledge, freedom of expression,
cybersecurity, and global cooperation.… —
VERTIGE !
Futurists, artists, and science-fiction writers explore these challenges,
imagining the future as a “black hole”:
inspiring, unsettling, or anxiety-inducing,
but above all
a space for reflection and creation.
Margalit Berriet
“…It is within this tension
— between the vertigo of form and the black hole of ground —
that art reaches its most naked truth:
it does not show, it draws in.
It does not describe, it absorbs.
It is in this spiral between eros and thanatos,
in this chaos of dislocated and recomposed bodies,
that Riccarda Montenero’s work is formed.”
Helen Margaret Giovanello
Mémoire de l’Avenir
Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize in Physics (2020),
shows in his work on black holes and the Big Bang
that the history of the universe begins with creation, not with an end:
“The history of the universe repeats endlessly, …
Time cycles are never identical:
the universe unfolds each time with differences.”
| VERTIGE ENG/FR Filippo Bruschi |
| VERTIGE – TROU NOIR ENG/FR HELEN MARGARET GIOVANELLO |
| VERTIGE ! – THE BLACK HOLE ENG/FR Margalit Berriet |
| CATALOGUE VERTIGE ! – THE BLACK HOLE ENG/FR |
Riccarda Montenero
Riccarda Montenero, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce and in Architecture in Turin, exhibits in Italy and abroad. Her work spans photography, sculpture, and 3D digital art, appearing in festivals, publications, and interdisciplinary performances.
She participated in the Venice Biennale (2011) and the Milan Photofestival (2022, Le immagini rilegate award).
Her humanist projects confront viewers with visible and invisible forms of violence.
She collaborates with Mémoire de l’Avenir in Paris and lives between Paris and Turin.
©Riccarda Montenero
EVENT
– 20H –
Dantean Spiral
Original Text + Musical Composition
To create Permutations:
Dantean Spiral,
I selected a tercet from Canto V of Inferno and one from Canto V
of Purgatorio
— two mirroring moments of The Divine Comedy.
The first gives voice to the doomed lovers Paolo and Francesca,
swept forever by the storm of their forbidden passion.
The second recalls Bonconte de Montefeltro, fallen in the Battle of Campaldino,
his body carried away by the Arno.
Love, war, and compassion
— these themes also pulse through
the work of Riccarda Montenero.
Filippo BRUSCHI
TEXTE ORIGINAL – MISE EN SCÈNE
Filippo BRUSCHI
ORIGINAL TEXT – STAGING
PhD in Theatre Studies (Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III), he teaches Italian and Performing Arts at Paris-Nanterre and Paris 8.
Author of Personnage collectif, personnage individuel au théâtre (Honoré Champion, 2013), he has published several poetry collections, including Plaquette (2014), Manières (2020), and Trois femmes européennes (forthcoming 2026).
As playwright and director, he created Luxuriàs (Fersen Prize 2015), Callas-Machine (2023), and collaborates on interdisciplinary projects combining theatre, poetry, and music.
Co-founder of the cultural site Lapisclamans, he is also active in the Motopoietico collective.
© Filippo BRUSCHI
SUSANNA SCAVELLO
Auteurs
Dr Susanna Scavello is a researcher in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Universities of Bologna and Picardie Jules Verne). She has taught Italian, Comparative2026).
Formée au jeu et à la danse, elle se produit
entre la France et l’Italie.
&
LIVINGLAB
is a creative duo composed of Mariana Ungureanu, composer,
and Martin Lucas, sound and visual landscaper.
Their projects often involve collaborations with musicians, choreographers, poets, and video artists.
Their work embraces immersive experiences across multiple genres
—instrumental and electronic music, improvisation, musique concrète, video installations, dance,
and stage works such as opera and oratorio.
Recent creations include The Portrait of Dorian Gray (2016),
Irreversible: Death by the Drip (University Paris 8 – CriticalEdge Alliance Conference, 2022),
The Ice Matter, a Threshold State (Semmelweiss Klinik, Vienna, 2023),
and Sospiri dei limbi (ARTEC, MSH Paris Nord, 2024).
Today, Dante’s work serves as the guiding path for their artistic exploration.
Mariana Ungureanu
Musical Composition
Composer and PhD candidate in music aesthetics, she researches new aesthetic approaches in music theatre.
Winner of several international prizes, including the “Georges Enescu” Prize (2005) and the Armel Opera Composer Competition (Vienna, 2016), her catalogue spans music theatre, chamber works, concertos, operas, and orchestral compositions. Her most recent work, the oratorio Sospiri dei Limbi (Paris, 2024), draws on Dante’s Inferno.
Since 2021, she has been developing the interdisciplinary project The Ice Life, combining arts, sciences, and ecology.
© Mariana Ungureanu
© Martin Lucas
Martin Lucas
Architecte
Born in Strasbourg, architect trained at ENSAPB in Paris, Martin Lucas has been exploring electronic sound since the 2000s.
Under the name EVIAS, he mainly works in pop and electronic soundtracks while maintaining a strong interest in experimental soundscapes.
He has edited and contributed to several soundtrack productions in collaboration with Mariana Ungureanu.
NOCTURNE
SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER, 2025 · 7:30 PM
OPEN DOORS 7PM
Cécile Bouillot
BANLIEUE | Action-Poetry
A performance where poetry becomes act.
Banlieue | Poésie-Action
– A Theatrical Performance
written and performed by Cécile Bouillot.
It explores the notion of center and periphery,
beyond the urban and the social.
Themes include
adolescence, diversity, creativity, connection, death,
choices, and the collective.
Paying tribute to poetry beyond the book and its voices,
the performance blends spoken, read, and acted texts
with classical and contemporary sounds.
1 hour.
Cécile Bouillot
Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris, Cécile Bouillot is an actress, director, video artist, and theater teacher.
On stage, she has worked with Philippe Adrien, Jacques Lassalle, Denis Podalydès, Jean-François Sivadier, and on screen with Bruno Podalydès, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Thomas Lilti, Audrey Diwan.
With the company Acte II scène 2, she co-directs productions and develops participatory video projects on everyday life. She also leads “from oral to written” workshops in high schools, universities, and art schools.
