Ludovico Paladini | LovPoem

“LovPoem” is the story of a broken love, which bursts apart as it intertwines with fragments of other shattered stories. As the pieces come together, memories fuse into an exquisite corpse of joys and sorrows: blurred faces that look alike, fragmented poems and songs that tell the same story over and over, to the point of nausea.

“LovPoem” invites the audience to dive into this pool of sadness, where memories and heartbreaks can overlap without hierarchy, becoming a shared experience that brings us closer in our loneliness.

The protagonist is stuck in a disordered space, rearranging objects to find release or a little comfort, switching lights on and off to better illuminate his sadness, playing ruthlessly nostalgic and sadly irritating videos to reach just the right depth of despair.

Dances intertwine with love songs, expressing the impulses and disillusions of a body at the mercy of its feelings. The body flies off, only to crash down like a dusty stone.

Heartbreak is a recurring theme in human history, one that has acquired its own codes and aesthetic, which in turn have influenced the way we experience and perceive heartbreak in real life. “LovPoem” focuses on this constructed representation of pain, recreating images steeped in pop suffering and over-performed pathos, offering an ironic critique of an emotional state that we try to embody but fail to make our own.