Fuori quadro — a performative device by gruppo nanou for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art galleries. For the first time in Perugia, at the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria.

The body enters the space of the painting to extend its tensions: light, colour, flat areas, voids, folds. Fabrics and movements act as surfaces in transformation, traversed by forces. The body becomes a mobile fold, an unstable extension of the images that preside over the exhibition rooms: it shifts the boundary between figure and ground, between image and real space. The form opens, folds back, overflows the frame.
Fuori quadro works on the edge where the image becomes physical presence, a sensory field. The audience moves through a system of thresholds: between canvas and room, between painting and body, between iconographic memory and immediate perception.