Veni, Vidi, So – il Forte Borgo | JULY 25TH

“VENI, VIDI, SO – IL FORTE BORGO”

Do we truly see when we see?
And what happens when the gaze, instead of possessing the world, accepts getting lost?

VENI, VIDI, SO—the gaze that knows is born from this simple and dizzying question. Seeing is never merely seeing: every vision carries a shadow with it, every light guards a fragment of night, every gaze needs a veil, an obstacle, a distance to truly learn how to know.

The performance by Compagnia Tecnologia Filosofica invites the audience to enter an experience of mobile, fragile, and continuously transforming perception. Two dancers and a musician inhabit the space like an open question: where does the action happen? From where am I watching it? What changes if the dance appears from the side, from afar, through a gap, behind a threshold, or within a sudden frame? And how does the music change when it does not simply accompany the scene, but breathes together with the place?

For Narrazioni Parallele Festival, VENI, VIDI, SO becomes a site-specific project built upon the locations of the Borgo di Fenestrelle and the Forte di Fenestrelle. It is not a single show repeated in different spaces, but an organism that changes shape according to the landscape that welcomes it. The Village and the Fortress are not backdrops: they are bodies, surfaces, memories, and perspectives—places that look back and ask to be looked at differently.

On July 25th, with VENI, VIDI, SO_Il Forte Borgo, the performance turns its attention to the FORTRESS: monumental architecture, stratified memory, a machine of stone and vision. Here, the gaze takes on another vibration: broader, more vertical, perhaps more restless. Perspective expands, the body measures distance, and the music inhabits cavities, surfaces, and echoes. In the Fortress, seeing means confronting that which looms over, protects, separates, and preserves.

VENI, VIDI, SO is an invitation to see with different eyes, to listen with different ears, and to touch with different hands. A performance that interweaves dance, live soundscapes, gesture, matter, and community, reminding us—along with Merleau-Ponty—that we see the world, yet we must learn to see it anew every day.