Lucino salita in viola is an action and installation display that was created as a cross-reference and soft reimagining of the Festa della Rificolona, a traditional event in Florentine folklore.

Those who lived in the country reached the city, using lanterns that in the darkness of the night created a trail of light that flowed into the urban environment, in a collective festive dimension.
In Lucino salita in viola the memory of this movement is sublimated around a center of gravity represented by a bonfire, in a space facing the street to beckon and welcome passersby.

Developing over the course of a day and reaching its climax during the night, the action is intended to pose as a cyclical ritual of construction and destruction: from the assembly of a series of sculptures, the basting of a small food altar, to a moment of descent in which fire becomes a participant in the entire transformation process. The restrained but in its own way acrobatic flame is a visual moment of contemplation and auspiciousness, and is meant to tell of the useful passage of abandonment, of the end of a pseudo-sacredness, of liberation from the physical object. During the evening, a simple food specially designed and processed with local ingredients will be prepared and shared with the audience, serving as a convivial element and memory of the action that took place.

The title of the project is meant to allude to a character in a fictional story, the name of an unknown street or place, in which the color purple stands both as a scent and as a transforming voice or nonexistent path to be searched.