An art gallery that is gradually closing down, a chapel in the middle of a hospital or a historic museum of fine arts: La Visita is a manifestation of the possibilities of space. It is Peeping Tom’s first site-specific creation, and establishes a dialogue with every new location it visits.

Each space becomes a catalyst for stories, characters, and images oscillating between reality and fiction. By introducing the imagined in the real, and merging the past, present and future, the performance creates a myriad of new possibilities. It bisects the spectator’s gaze, toward a multitude of ways to observe, contemplate and perceive a situation, a work of art, or a human life.

Archetypes from past creations are being rehoused and continue their stories, while intermingling with the real people who work, live and study every day in these spaces, who here become part of the work of art. In La Visita , life becomes art, art becomes life, boundaries blur. It is a performance that is in constant development, and never twice the same.

The development of La Visita started in the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia (in collaboration with Festival Aperto/Fondazione I Teatri), continues at the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, and will arrive at the premiere at the KMSKA in Antwerp. The creation received the FEDORA Platform’s Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for Ballet 2021.