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In "Embodying Pasolini", the actor unpacks,
displays and tries on the costumes, sometimes with the help of
fashion historian and curator Olivier Saillard.
The show - with around 40 costumes designed by Danilo Donati
for, among others, the late director's "Oedipus Rex" and "The
Decameron" - will be premiered on Friday at Rome's the Pelanda
and the Mattatoio exhibition pavilion and streamed online.
"The performance is really the creation of an exhibition and we
are curators and it's real, it's not a fake, it's not a fiction.
We are creating an exhibition here," Swinton told Reuters on
Thursday.
"What those people who watch the performance see is two people
figuring out how to embody Pasolini but honestly even Olivier
and I, we don't really know what we are doing which I think it's
a great place to start."
The costumes, which have been kept at tailoring house Sartoria
Farani, include dresses, coats and wooden blocks that were used
to make hats seen in the films.
Pasolini, also a poet and writer, was known for his
unconventional movies, including "Salo, or the 120 Days of
Sodom".
(Reporting by Cristiano Corvino; Writing by Marie-Louise
Gumuchian; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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