A ‘body to body’, whether declined in the conflict of individuals or of society as a whole, or in communion and closeness, binds the shows chosen for the thirty-fourth edition of the Oriente Occidente Festival. On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, in Rovereto, a city where a bell whose bronze comes from the fusion of the cannons of the nineteen nations that took part in the Great War reigns as a perennial reminder of peace, the theme of conflict, osmotically anchored to the antithetical one of harmony and communion, could not go unnoticed. In fact, with different expressive and aesthetic modes, the artistic line of this edition abandons the geographical leitmotiv of recent years, in order to recount more profoundly the man, the communities, the political, social and family tensions that unite him in any corner of the globe. The micro and the macro of conflict, the memory of the body and the potential of union.

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