La Festa Dell'Equatore — Lacavalla Rosa

An attempt to mend a piece of sky unfurling over an ocean of memories. Solid yet weightless, images float, carrying fragments of stories and cultures in constant motion.

The Equator, that invisible line dividing our planet into two hemispheres, becomes a symbolic meeting point at the crossroads where destinies collide and merge—an experience that marks a turning point in one’s life as a new world unfolds. Connecting the thread that binds imagination and memory, at the heart of this exploration is the captivating phenomenon of moving stars as they migrate from one hemisphere to another. A celestial dance reflecting the migration of people, ideas, and traditions.

Using an Italo-Argentinian family and its fragmented history as a case study of a visual and emotional journey, the work aims to illuminate a broader theme. It delves into the profound function of family constellations formed across hemispheres and generations, bridged by memory and migration, centering on the equator as both a divider and unifier.

The project’s title itself pays homage to a poignant rite of passage that took place aboard steamships transporting migrants to South America. It was a celebratory moment, a communal commemoration marking the approach of a new life. However, it often was followed by profound silence, accompanied by eyes filled with tears and a mixture of hopes and nostalgia.

La Festa Dell'Equatore is an initiatory journey, a crossing of boundaries, an invitation to immerse oneself in a continuous flow of transformations. An intimate fresco of a distant past, of family stories intertwined with contemporary narratives.

At the same time, it becomes a metaphor for humanity's search for a meeting point that turns out to be that imaginary line which simultaneously divides and unites, creating family constellations from one hemisphere to another. Past and present, reality and dream merge, projecting us towards a future yet to be written, while stars sing from the deep blue of eternity to the soul of the Ocean.

La Festa Dell’Equatore is an ongoing transmedia project.
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The Crossing Ceremony is a single-channel video installation that binds found footage of the Equator line-crossing ceremony - featuring old and contemporary rituals - with more evocative imagery capturing the essence of migration connected to the phenomenon of “moving stars”.

The videowork invites viewers to embark on a voyage alongside King Neptune, the revered guardian of the oceans. Within the narrative, Neptune prepares for a pivotal event—the crossing of the Equator Line—a celestial boundary of great significance for himself and all inhabitants of his realm. Transitioning into the second part, the narrative delves into a more introspective perspective, metaphorically depicting the challenges of the journey and the profound symbolism inherent in traversing the invisible threshold, intertwined with the shifting patterns of celestial bodies in the night sky.

7’’02’, Color, Sound
Voice hover: English
Subtitles: English (available also in Italian or Spanish)
Music: Hernán Paulitti

La Festa dell’Equatore is an exploration of geographical and emotional distances between two hemispheres. Combining different media, including photography, video, audio recordings, found footage, and archive, the project adopts a transmedia narrative format.

A selection of it is contained within a website, offering a contemporary and imaginative view on the journey of people and stars migration, while overlapping historical materials and references.

Using a narrative that distinguishes between reality and dream, the website offers an engaging experience to users, allowing them to explore these themes freely and intuitively.

Within each section, they will find a wide range of multimedia content, including documents, audio recordings, an interactive map, texts, and videos arranged in a non-linear manner to stimulate exploration and discovery.

A key element is represented by crossing the equator line, symbolizing the passage between different hemispheres, both physically and metaphorically.

Website still under construction.