Review of Arsura by Davide Sannia, published in KLP – Krapp’s Last Post on the occasion of the festival Testimonies Research, Actions 2025 directed by Teatro Akropolis. A work of subtraction, apparition and altered time.

Arsura
Photo: Lorenzo Pasini
[...]
Completely different in tone, yet equally radical, is Arsura by gruppo nanou, a work that seems to arise from a process of subtraction. Rhuena Bracci moves through the space like an apparition, a body rendered as a “figure,” deprived of any recognisable identity, immersed in a composition of light and colour that constructs a landscape more mental than narrative. The action unfolds through appearances and dissolves, like an interrupted cinematic sequence, like a dream that resists possession.
Nanou continues its research into the relationship between body, image, and sound, offering the spectator an altered perception of time: a place in which history is absent and what remains is a quality of seeing.
It is an experience that asks for availability, not interpretation: to be present with emptiness, to let oneself be traversed by its arsura.
[...]