The Coming Together is a photographic book born from a twenty-year collaboration between Ayzoh! and Movimento Centrale, a dance and social theater collective based in Rimini, Italy. It brings together movement, philosophy, and visual experimentation to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to live in conscious relationship with others—without giving up who we are?
This project is not about spectacle. It’s about presence.
Each page reflects years of embodied research in dance and community practice, interpreted through Claudio Maria Lerario’s infrared photography, where bodies dissolve into energy, emotion, and trace. There is no stage. No makeup. Just raw light and shadow, captured beyond the visible spectrum.
To guide this visual experience, we turned to Erich Fromm and his book The Art of Loving. His words, far from sentimental, speak to a radical vision of love as an act of will, maturity, and inner discipline. Love, here, is not possession. It’s not escape. It’s an active force that recognizes the freedom and singularity of the other.
The Structure
The book unfolds like a dance score—alternating silence, movement, thought. It’s a layered conversation between image and text. Between the invisible language of the body and the lucid, timeless reflections of Fromm.
The title, The Coming Together, carries many meanings: bodies in space, individuals in relationship, difference without assimilation. This is not a call for sameness. It’s a statement about unity through distinction. Not a fusion, but a resonance.
Why This Matters
In an age of algorithmic bubbles and identity extremes, this project insists on a different rhythm. It speaks softly but clearly: diversity is not a problem to be solved, but a condition to be lived—fully, freely, consciously.
What you hold in your hands is not a manifesto. It’s not an art product. It’s a field of tension and intimacy where movement becomes metaphor, and words become touch.
