Family Affair

Family Affair is an anthropological exploration, a living archive that portrays in an original way the "state of the art" of the contemporary family. The research of ZimmerFrei began in 2015 and went through different and distant cities like Lausanne, Forlì, Budapest, Milan, Warsaw, Cagliari and Torres Novas in Portugal, where the group has realized a series of documentary theater performances with a total of 45 local families (more than 100 people). Each family is a particular universe and each of its members can be said to be the best expert of their family experience. Each person portrayed tells an episode or an aspect of their family: extended families, informal families, families of choice, families recomposed, families in transit, temporary families and intermittent families that increasingly characterize our contemporaneity. The video installation for two screens presented for the first time in Forlì is an invitation to listen to a myriad of voices, an endless series of micro-stories that feed the great narration of Europe as imagined continent, where the similarities and assonances they are always greater than the differences.