Eco/Arquipélago

A garden, the end of a long summer. Two lovers meet again for what they think will be the last conversation they’ll ever have. Threads of memories, situations, and misunderstandings are revisited, turned over and over again in a crescendo of tension.

Vaguely inspired by episodes from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”, Eco/Arquipélago interweaves and rewrites fragments of the myths of Echo and Narcissus: curiosity, misconnection, rejection, denial, the almost adolescent torment of passion, identity, difference, and narcissism.

In the ancient myth, the body of Narcissus burns until it is transformed into the flower that now bears his name: Eco/Arquipélago turns this ending into a metaphor. In a time when everything is mediated by the images we project of ourselves – those we carefully review and edit to the point of nausea, in a game of appearances that often conceals emptiness – how do we succeed (or fail) in establishing deep, vital connections with others? What is the price to be paid for the search of such closeness? And, in failing or succeeding, how easily are we lost, or saved?