Friday, September 19, from 7:00 PM to midnight, Centro Pecci presents the first autumn edition of Centro Pecci Night, a special evening opening during which all ongoing exhibitions can be visited until midnight, enriched by “what if you stepped inside?”, a program of talks, performances, and experimental music created in collaboration with Kinkaleri, OOH-sounds, and NUB Project Space.
Program
- 7:00 PM | OHT, FRANKENSTEIN – if you love solitude, you don’t love freedom
The publication, released by bruno in 2024, gathers OHT’s research on Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary W. Shelley and Filippo Andreatta’s journeys through the monster’s landscapes. The novel becomes material to be examined, dissected, stitched back together—a body available for different experiments: a theatre play, a reading session, an installation, an aborted radio drama, an EP, a film adaptation. The book itself presents as a monstrous object: it republishes the 1831 edition, grafting onto Mary W. Shelley’s words the materials generated by the encounter between OHT and the novel.
- 8:30 PM | Inside the Work of Davide Stucchi and Lina Pallotta, supported by Unicoop Firenze
This edition of Inside the Work is dedicated to Davide Stucchi, featured in the exhibition Light Lights, which explores the fleetingness of encounters and moments of life through the theme of light. Inside the Work continues with two photographs by Lina Pallotta, Porpora New York City, 1993 and Porpora Basilica di San Pietro, 1996, which have become part of the exhibition path of Eccentrica. The Collections of Centro Pecci.
- 9:30 PM | Vincent Giampino, schaustellen, curated by Kinkaleri, within the framework of Body To Be
schau (show, exhibition, spectacle) is the first derivation of the Umlaut project and places a diaeresis on the bow—an act of bending toward someone, a gesture marking the beginning and end of a moment, welcome and farewell, gratitude and forgiveness, a plea for mercy and surrender to condemnation. This theatre is a morgue. Theatre is a realm of power.
stellen (to place, to set, to produce) is the second derivation of the Umlaut project and places a diaeresis on domination and being dominated. A continuous negotiation between the image and its representation. This theatre is a morgue. Theatre is a realm of domination.
- 10:30 PM | Beam Splitter (Audrey Chen & Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø), curated by OOH-sounds and NUB Project Space
Beam Splitter is a duo formed by Audrey Chen (voice) and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (trombone and analog electronics). Their work develops from breath, extreme amplification, and physical interaction with the instrument, creating a sonic flow moving between control and instability. Their practice is rooted in improvisation and the exploration of sound as living matter—fragile and dense. In performance, the boundary between the two instruments becomes porous: the voice transforms into noise, the trombone takes on vocal qualities, and electronic feedback generates unpredictable tensions. Beam Splitter offers an intense and close listening experience, where every gesture becomes a structural element of sound.
Inside the Work is supported by Unicoop Firenze. Young people under 30 who register on the portal at this link can access a free ticket, which includes admission to the exhibitions and the entire Centro Pecci Night program.
Due to ongoing works in the square behind the Centro Pecci, access to the museum and its spaces is temporarily modified. Entry is only possible through the museum’s main entrance.
