Exodus – Matter, the fourth and final episode of the quadrilogy Exodus, a gruppo nanou research project inspired by Sebastião Salgado’s work Exodus.

A video, a photographic memory in motion, a heterodox work that continues the experimentation between stage and visual languages, highlighting the collaboration between gruppo nanou, photographer Daniele Casadio, and musician Bruno Dorella.
During the rehearsals for redrum, gruppo nanou accepted the commission from MAR – Museum of Art of the City of Ravenna to create Esodo, a composition in four choreographic movements inspired by Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition Exodus.

Matter unfolds as perceptual density: weight, resistance, friction, accumulation.
Bodies operate as sensitive surfaces, shaped by forces that model them, slow them down, and render them opaque or permeable. The choreography investigates a shifting threshold between presence and transformation, between form and mutation.

The scenic action absorbs the tension of the photographic image and translates it into rhythm, duration, and intensity. Sound, light, and movement converge to construct a material landscape in constant metamorphosis.

Produced in collaboration with MAR – Museo d’Arte della Città di Ravenna, with curatorial collaboration by Giorgia Salerno.

The body, light and space become tools to return the vibration of the image, evading narrative but not meaning. Bruno Dorella‘s music, from the redrum soundtrack, highlights the creative genesis between the two projects.