"The story that Nicole Coceancig tells us through her singing voice is, therefore, a story of horizons and roots. Of lands that sit on the edge of distant worlds and yet resemble each other, even if they don’t want to, even if we don’t want to. It tastes of Pakistan and Carnia, this desperate step traced on the sharp stones of the Balkans, a corridor that separates Europe from Elsewhere, and which becomes, in its own way, both an epic and a civil denunciation, invective and poem.
A testimony capable of giving voice to those who have none, and perhaps will never have one. And so, this is a journey. Of desperate love. The kind that is so vast, so immense, that it cannot even be contained between lips and eyelashes. There are those who set out, chasing a dream or an utopia. Nicole stops to listen to one, gathers its words, as one would collect shards of shells, sharp and jagged, on the shore of a sea that no longer remembers how to stay blue, so great is the melancholy that fades it. [...] "
by Angelo Floramo
Azzurra Hall
Forni di Sotto was once famous for its mountain architecture with stone houses with wooden balconies. Having risen from the ashes, today it is a completely new town, where the only testaments to its past are the 19th-century fountains of Tredolo, Baselia, and Vico boroughs. Like nearby Forni di Sopra, the town is a summer and winter resort. Part of the municipal area belongs to the nature reserve of the Friulian Dolomites.
Photography by Ulderica Da Pozzo
