I don't exist if I don't appear on TV. I don't exist if I'm not on Facebook. I don't exist if I'm not different from those who want me to be the same. I don't exist if I'm not different from my life. I don't exist if I don't represent myself, like in a theatrical play. And since everyday life seems uninteresting - divided between family, work and daily commitments - I put on makeup, I cover myself every day in bright, shiny, phosphorescent paint. Until I disappear, I become virtual, represented only by the objects that identify my aspirations.
I am no longer here. All that will remain of me will be technological prosthetics and a taut, lifted, masked face, covered in yellowed paint. Leonardo Manera
This is Segnali di vita, a show by Leonardo Manera, actor, author and cabaret artist, a well-known face on television. Born in Milan in 1967, he has created over the years a vast repertoire, an expression of an endless imagination, marked by an original ability to highlight the contradictions of everyday life. Among his theatre shows are Se non m’illudo mi chiudo, Abbracciati da sola che c’ho d’andar via, Aspetto espero and more recently Notti amare, but he has also tried his hand at radio – he hosted Sumo with Giovanna Zucconi – with the big screen in La grande prugna and Ma femme s'apelle Maurice and with writing in Sole cuore fluoro.
