PROJECTS & COMMISSIONS
VISUAL PROJECTS AND LIVE PERFORMANCES FOR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
LIVE / THEATRE
ARTOM
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE NATION
NO ONE HAS AN INNOCENT LOOK
Premiere: 14 June 2026
Venue: Fonderie Limone, Moncalieri — Teatro Stabile di Torino
The project was promoted by the Municipality of Moncalieri.
Direction and Staging: VALENTINA MAFFEO AND ALESSANDRO DI MAURO
Music, Visuals and Video Editing: VALENTINA MAFFEO
Sound and Lighting: FULLIGHT SERVICE
Autobiography of the Nation – No One Has an Innocent Look is a theatrical journey through some of the most dramatic moments in Italian history between 1938 and 1944, culminating in the arrest and death of Emanuele Artom, a Turin-born Jewish historian, intellectual and member of the Resistance. The performance unfolds through a sequence of theatrical tableaux, physical actions, projections, lighting and musical compositions. Spoken language is reduced to the essential, giving way to a predominantly visual and emotional form of dramaturgy. Fragments from the Old Testament, historical materials and sound compositions guide the audience through several pivotal moments in Italian history: the introduction of the racial laws in 1938, Italy’s entry into the Second World War, the fall of Fascism on 25 July 1943, the Verona Manifesto of the Italian Social Republic and, finally, Artom’s arrest. Rather than offering a conventional historical reconstruction, the work presents a theatrical reflection on the relationship between the individual, power, responsibility and memory. Through symbolic imagery, physical and sonic tension and moments of intense emotional impact, the performance questions the present through the unresolved responsibilities of the past. Performers: Alessandro Di Mauro, Antonella Bellan (Assistant Director), Carolina Dardano, Gabriella Combina, Stefania Rubatti and Monica Toselli Duration: 40 minutes
Photogallery
LIVE / THEATRE
Μεταμόρφωση
Divine fury and the (almost) impossible erasure of original sin
METAMORFOSI
A One-Act Staging of Human Redemption
Premiere: 18 May 2026
Direction and Staging: VALENTINA MAFFEO AND ALESSANDRO DI MAURO
Music, Visuals and Video Editing: VALENTINA MAFFEO
Sound and Lighting: FULLIGHT SERVICE
Venue: GALLERIA SPAZIOBIANCO Via Saluzzo 23, Turin
Performers: ALESSANDRO DI MAURO AND ALLEGRA LEDDA
Allegra moves alone on stage, immersed in a community that is not merely an audience, but a living presence: a social body that observes, judges and hopes. Around her, a worldly journey unfolds through the stages of human damnation, understood as the absence of meaning in being here and now. Infected by this original sin — transmitted through the voice of Macbeth — Allegra encounters a metallic, disembodied presence and engages with it in a symbolic sexual union: an encounter with evil that embodies attraction, seduction and, at the same time, the condemnation of human transience. From this contamination emerges an attempt at salvation. Allegra entrusts herself to a ritual evoking archetypal elements of the Christian tradition: water, ashes, flesh and physical atonement. She listens to the stormy sea of the God of the Old Testament: a “non-divine” God, charged with passion, anger and vengeance; profoundly human in his rage against his own creation. Throughout this passage, Allegra attempts to free herself and become her own saviour. For a single moment — fragile and evanescent like a musical note — she brushes against the meaning of existence. Yet, precisely because she is human, the revelation immediately burns away: redemption is a door already closed, an instant that ignites as it fades, reaffirming the blind boundaries of human knowledge. Duration: 50 minutes
Photogallery (Photo: Guido Savant)
TEMPORARY INSTALLATION
25 APRIL 2025 commemorative projection mapping
Art Direction / Production: VALENTINA MAFFEO | ILUMEN ATELIER Production Assistant: Caterina Lanfranchi Music by Ruben Zambon, with the contribution of Manuel Sirotti All photographic materials and quotations were sourced from the archive of ISTORETO — the Piedmont Institute for the History of the Resistance and Contemporary Society “Giorgio Agosti”, whose collaboration is gratefully acknowledged. The selected quotations are by Anna Cherchi Ferrari, a Piedmontese partisan and deportee, and Paolo Braccini, a Piedmontese partisan executed at the Martinetto firing range in Turin. The archival photographs were digitised and transformed into realistic, immersive moving images using artificial intelligence, with full respect for the historical sources and their ethical integrity. Duration: 7 minutes
Women of the Resistance
80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION | 1945–2025
A visual installation dedicated to the memory and courage of women partisans.
The project was promoted by the Municipality of Moncalieri, the Metropolitan City of Turin and Associazione Culturale Avvalorando.
Moncalieri City Hall, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II (Turin, Italy)
The projection mapping installation ran from 6 to 26 April 2025.
Photogallery
PRESS & MEDIA
Selected press coverage and media features dedicated to the project.
VIDEO EDITING
DISCARICA SOCIALE INTERVIEW | 2026
PIETRO BUFFA
VIDEO EDITING BY VALENTINA MAFFEO
INTERVIEW BY ALESSANDRO DI MAURO
Pietro Buffa served as director of some of Italy’s most complex prisons. In this interview, he reflects on his professional experience, personal memories and the realities of the prison system, exploring themes of responsibility, institutional culture and the complex relationship between incarceration and society.
Duration: 17 minutes
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