Within this performance, carried out in collaboration with the fashion course students, we created a collaction of performances, where each of us developed our own personal performance and engaged in dialogue with the performances of others. At the beginning of my performance, I would go to the pile of rags and clothes we had created, symbolizing the classic Venus of the Rags by our master Michelangelo Pistoletto. I would pull a cloth of a specific color from one corner, lay it out, and begin tracing the outline of my body while lying down. 

We recreated a Venus of the Rags in which, at the end of each performance, we would position ourselves beside it. Personally, during my performance, which took place within this larger collective piece, I explored the theme of humanity, specifically addressing discrimination. In the performance, I traced the outline of my body by lying down on a piece of blue fabric. I chose various colors to symbolize cultural differences, emphasizing that we are all human and share the same bodily form. In addition to tracing and cutting out my outline on the spot, I invited other performers and even members of the audience to join me and have their outlines traced as well.

Practically speaking, I lay on my back, and using touch, I outlined my image with acrylic paint of different colors. In that moment, I didn't need to see if I was drawing a "correct" line, I felt it through the touch of my fingers tracing a line around my body, all while remaining lying down. Then, at a certain point, I would stand up, and before starting a new outline, I would go to the "mountain of the Rags" in the center of the room, we created pull out a new fabric of a different color, one that had not been visible before and begin the process again. At the end of the performance, I read a text I had written titled "Are we humans?", in which I questioned and narrated all those cases in the world and at the societal level where discrimination occurs: based on origin, sexual orientation, or one's culture. The purpose of this text was precisely to emphasize that the inten of my performance was to raise awareness from a human perspective, highlighting humanity and its people.

This performance born from the discovery about my own name, Gabriel, which I found out, wasn't italian name, as the italian version of Gabriel is Gabriele. I began exploring commonalities with this name, knowing for instance, that it was recurrent in various religions such as Christanity, Judaism and Islam through the figure of the Archangel Gabriele. I discovered that the origin of the name Gabriel, comes from Hebrew and means " Strenght of God". I then decided to reflect more deeply on my past. I was adopted at the age of seven, and I remember carrying three other names with me unconsciously since childhood until the age of thriteen, when these names, of Arabics origin reflecting my being half Egyptian were revealed to me. They were: Mohamed, Ahmed and Shaaban. With this revelation, I sought a possible way to narrate these three identities in one. 

I therefore immediately chose the solution of the performance, from which Different names Different personalities was born. It pushed me to bring out memories of my childhood, and as mentioned before, of the names they used call me before they knew Gabriel, a person didn't yet recognize them. I felt these names as three people imprisoned by someone, against them and against my will within my name.The performative event became the most useful tool to free Mohamed, Ahamed and Shaaban, my reflections of me about my past, and through the performance, I was able to give them the freedom to BE, BECOME and PASS ON, connecting them to the concept of birth, growth, and death. Also the colours I used inside the performative "ritual action" like white, blue and black, of the mask I wore, representing the three faces of my names, reflect the same meaning. During the performance, in addition to wearing the masks, I was dressed in black, a color I associate with death. However, in this case as I am alive, I live in a present far from the past of my childhood was the only way I could return to speak to the three prisoners, as if I had to cancel the entity of the present Gabriel, to return to a very distant past, and therfore "die" to becomes a shadow. I also chose to create the performance within a circle of blue fabric, which has always been the color of my childhood, and performed the action of creating the circle as a time portal. Once I was inside, the actions of removing the bandages from my arms followed, symbolizing the wounds of my childhood, and freeing the paper texts/letters for each of the three names from the past, with which I was able to free them. In the end, I freed the three other me also by using the maracas I made for the event.