Exhibitions and Festival
A performance with Jacopo Benassi, Sabato De Sarno and Sissi marks the closing of In corpo presente.
Date
28 April 2026
Time
18:00 PM - 21:30 PM
Where
ex Teatro dell'Oriuolo, Florence - Italy
Fruition
In-person event
The artistic practices behind the performance of In corpo presente.
On December 9, at Teatro Niccolini, IED Firenze presented a masterclass with Jacopo Benassi, Sabato De Sarno and Sissi: an open moment of exchange with the three artists, who shared their creative approaches and research trajectories that gave rise to the project In corpo presente, a year-long program involving students in a collective exploration of the relationship between body, matter, and collective gesture.
Jacopo Benassi, an artist and photographer active since the 1980s, has developed a direct and instinctive visual language spanning photography, performance, and installation. Sabato De Sarno, a fashion designer whose career has developed within major fashion houses, from Prada to Valentino, up to his role as creative director at Gucci, pursues a research focused on garment construction and the dialogue between form and everyday life. Sissi (Daniela Olivieri), a visual artist, intertwines drawing, textile, performance, and sculpture in a practice deeply connected to the body.
Through workshops, shared practices, and performative moments, the group explored new forms of presence, connection, and belonging, bringing together different languages: from photography to sound, from textile to movement, to fashion, around a common idea: the body as a mobile material, a space of relation, and a field of shared research.
This journey will reach its culmination on April 28, 2026, at the former Teatro dell’Oriuolo, with a day open to the public (free admission) marking the final presentation of the work developed. The program includes a talk at 6:00 PM, followed by a collective performance, the outcome of the practices and experiments carried out throughout the year. Djset curated by Tropical Animals.
An event that transforms process into a shared experience, opening up a space of relation where body, gesture, and matter become tools for encounter and storytelling.
