02/09/2026
Pinksummer is pleased to announce the presentation of Cesare Viel’s book on 10 September 2026, h7 pm, Pinksummer.
Si può tremare per una frase (One Can Tremble at a Phrase) is a book edited by the artist himself, bringing together the performance texts of Cesare Viel, written over more than thirty years of artistic practice. Thirty texts, selected and arranged chronologically, conceived to be performed by the artist, either alone or together with other performers, through a range of different approaches: lecture performances, video, audio interventions, environmental installations, and relational devices.
An opportunity to explore the role of writing in Viel’s practice: a fundamental aspect of his work, whose full complexity has not always been fully grasped. The writings collected here can also be read in their pure textual dimension: as fragmentary narratives, stories, dialogues, and monologues. Between expressiveness, subjectivity, and thought in action.
The hybrid identity of these texts—and, more broadly, of the conceptual dimension of Viel’s entire oeuvre—is evident from the outset of his artistic research in the late 1980s. Around recurring themes: the word, the voice, the body, gender identity, the relationship with space, the social context, and personal and collective memory.
An archive of living traces that are activated on the page as well as in the mind of the reader. Attention and dispersal, strength and fragility, presence and latency are among the currents running through this magmatic, embodied, undisciplined methodology, which is at the same time consistently coherent and rigorous.
