2025
SITUS INVERSUS is an eggégora, a temporary and visionary organism that forms on the edge of the visible, in the interstice between what can be inhabited and what is destined for desertion. It takes place on state property, on that liminal stretch of territory that does not belong — neither to the land nor to the sea, neither to the body nor to the concept of property — and for this reason it becomes the perfect terrain for the triggering of an anomalous summons.
In anatomy, situs inversus is a condition in which the body’s organs are arranged as in a mirror: the heart beats on the right, the liver is on the left. This natural anomaly becomes here a poetic and political metaphor. To inhabit then means to arrange the organs of perception differently, to invert the coordinates, to move the heart elsewhere.
In the context of Demanio Marittimo.KM-278, SITUS INVERSUS manifests itself as a perceptive gathering, a subtle hunt that challenges the orientation, the identity, the intended use of the land, of the body, of time.
Those who participate do not adhere to an idea, but allow themselves to be crossed by a friction. The eggégore do not form communities, but momentary constellations: openings in the threshold, interruptions in the linear flow, cracks that emerge due to excess or lack.
In SITUS INVERSUS, the concept of disinhabiting is not escape, but an active gesture of relocation: a taking of the floor in the sand, a symbolic rotation of the affective and perceptive geography.
The state-owned beach thus becomes a laboratory of inverses: not an exhibition place, but an exposed place. Not a stage, but an unstable support for a multiplication of glances, voices, presences that exceed the perimeter of the representation.
The eggégora are a performative study device curated by Giorgiomaria Cornelio and Giulia Pigliapoco to investigate the relationships between performance, theater, music, visual art, literature, dance, territory and historical memory, with the aim of producing a cycle of works that aim at the reactivation of public and urban spaces. They are performative gatherings, prototypes of convocation to unseen places, often due to excessive exposure. They are perceptive hunts that trigger new crossings. Those who participate in their formation have no common identity. The eggregore work through intersections and frictions: «an adventure of cycles, of parables, of inventions, of openings, of inclinations». (Emilio Villa)