Eleonora Manca
Your Shadow, 14:32 min, Color, Stereo, Italy, 2026
I told my dreams to Artificial Intelligence…
Little by little, a common language was created at the border where my unconscious met the digital unconscious.
If it is true that “the archetype is the imaginative pattern of the collective unconscious” (C.G. Jung), it could also be true that a parallel unconscious is emerging as a collective database, representing a kind of unconscious synthesis.
In the fluid language of dreams, the Shadow tends to manifest itself mainly through the figure of the mirror double, acting as a sort of dark twin or “failed” version of ourselves. The encounter with the Shadow in dreams is therefore a moment of profound truth.
The shadow also represents what has been excluded. To become whole again, we must also encounter what we have avoided or been unable to accept. The Shadow is not a mistake, but what has not been allowed to exist. It is what has been repressed, denied, or forgotten. The Shadow is home not only to wounds, but also to power, instinct, creativity, and unlived truths.
It is in the unconscious that the mystery of human instinct lies hidden. And it is here that the body trembles, resists and remembers.
concept, texts-to-video, poetry, editing: Eleonora Manca
AI generated
Having graduated with a thesis on the Russian avant-garde, Eleonora Manca is a visual artist, video artist and video-performer. She uses her body as the main means to investigate the themes of metamorphosis, memory and body memory; exploring psychology, the unconscious and hypnagogic images. You have exhibited in numerous festivals, collective and personal in Italy and abroad. You have published essays and volumes on research theatre, on the relationship between performing arts and visual arts, Fashion Film, with particular attention to the presence of the body as an expressive means. She lives and works in Turin.