Happy days / Ludovico Paladini - Golden Gore

1 rue de Bourgogne, 67100 Strasbourg

Golden Gore explores the fragility of male performance through the stylized prism of football. In a dreamlike stadium, he repeats exultations as if they were an end in themselves, embodying a hyper-stylized masculinity where power, control, and charisma are carefully imitated, but never truly possessed. The piece highlights the social expectations placed on the male body: to dominate, to resist, to impress. Each gesture, whether a theatrical fall or a shout of victory, is emptied of its context and amplified in a choreography. Football deviates…