The title of the performance, Mio cuore io sto soffrendo (My Heart, I Am Suffering), is taken from a song by Rita Pavone. It says much about Antonio Marras’ poetics: he weeps, sews, borrows, and recreates images and visions from popular culture, as well as narratives drawn from forgotten objects. Calvino, Buzzati, or a verse from a forgotten song that resurfaces in the mind and, as Barthes suggests, suddenly becomes important when one is in love. The performance explores pain, stages of life, personal stories, and melancholic, frightened childhood memories—reciting the alphabet or multiplication tables at primary school.

In the year of GO! 2025 Nova Gorica and Gorizia European Capital of Culture, ArtistiAssociati has chosen to launch a unique site-specific project involving a group of 29 actors and performers, bearing the prestigious signature of Antonio Marras.
For Marras, art is a constant source of inspiration and a guide. It intertwines and unites all the worlds that are part of his life—design, fashion, vision, and experiment after experiment, even the world of performing arts.