About: Romina de Novellis

Romina De Novellis, an Italian performer born in Naples (1982), was a longtime resident of Rome.After many years dedicated to dance and theater, she graduated from the Royal Academy of Dance de London and continuedher studies at the University of Rome 3. She lives in Paris, where she is a PhDstudent in Anthropology et Sociology at the EHESS. Her thesis is on the .Her artistic work is on the concept of the body in terms of public processions, installed in urban spacesand followed by the gaze of passers-by.Gesture is at the center of these paintings that come to life through her body. Her aim is to show howa state of trance, alienation and madness, can manifest on the body, especially in the precarioushuman conditions that exist on the margins of society (related to employment, wide social n