Enérgheia is a word that indicates an act of transformation, or being at work, according to a usage that began to take place with Aristotle. Alongside activities that produce works, there are others in which act and work coincide. Such is dance, in which the enérgheia is both subject and object of experience.

Enrico Piergiacomi

ENERGHEIA was born from an emotional immersion in the retinal-mnemonic archives of about forty people to whom I asked a query: which are the public images that are impressed on your retina and that even after a long time continue to be alive in your visual memory?
Those fragments of events fixed on analogue or digital supports are pieces of History, a personal, collective mnemonic atlas. I received more than 350 images that went on to compose a sort of retinal archive, a mnemonic archive of bodies partially shared by a heterogeneous group of people. I then made a choice (88 images) linked to the numerical recurrence of the images and to my sensitivity. Through a long process of incarnation of those images ENERGHEIA was born. The process of incarnation was not limited to the copying/imitation of the image, but activated an in-depth analysis of the space, the tension, the forces, the rhythm generated by every immortalised action, by the investigation of the before and after, by what is beyond the image. Each image entered my body, deforming it, modifying its postures and tensions until it generated states of the body. The retinal archive entered my body; my body became the archive itself of those images through an anachronic montage that disrupts the time line of the history.