Infinity of Traces investigate class struggle and class shame in the context of the Italian and the global contemporary political scenarios. The project attempts to describe a transitional path from shame, intended as a private, speechless and individualised condition, to shame as a trigger for emancipation. Voicing embarrassment might be the first step for a political embodiment of awareness, out-loud participation of a shared process. A chance for building open spaces of communication. Shame is observed through the prism of language, images and music, and especially through voice. The voice is a vertigo of exposure. Say something. Be silent.

Communicating our own vulnerabilities can take place only at the edge of communication itself. There where communication “fails”. I am able to utter my shame only from the margins, the limits of speech, only by acknowledging the relevance of every individual voice, of every individual silence.

By investigating the meaning of the Italian saying prendere voce, literally taking voice, the project implements different aspects of voicing shame through 3 main modalities: the first is a sequence of songs, written in collaboration with the musician Francesco Alessandri; the second is an interview with the Italian writer Alberto Prunetti, author of a trilogy on the working class; the third is a visual dialogue with the artist Josephine Baan, with whom I have been collaborating since 2019.