A scientist, a butcher, two chicks, a salmon… 

Corn is getting giant, turkeys have lost the ability to reproduce, cows are producing an incredible amount of milk, dachshunds are getting grossly long.

‘’Selective Breeding’’ is metaphorically a kaleidoscope, a sort of human device made up of several mirrors arranged at an angle within a tube. In the performance the kaleidoscope is represented by the animal, plant and human world, the mirrors are the great themes that concern us all, without exception. In the performance, Pablo Girolami’s investigation is aimed at reflections around themes such as survival, within a dystopian panorama built specifically to raise reflections and disturbances in the viewer’s consciousness. 

It is therefore a question of tracing a scenario, which gives way to a new and rediscovered awareness, which in this performance is given by the relationship between man and consumerism, land and exploitation, dignity and protection for the life of the ecosystem, building images that can change in an unpredictable, variable way and at any time. 

In the frantic quest to improve human living standards, animal welfare is systematically outraged. 

The protagonists are a scientist, a butcher, two chicks and a salmon, the same protagonists who represent some of the actors who have inhabited more than 3.5 billion years of evolution on earth to date, essential for homo sapiens’s survival.

Genetics, logic, meat, manipulation, earth, globalization, selfishness, alteration are just some of the points that will be investigated in the performance with a single purpose: To question; if human beings were selectively reproduced, would it be better for the future of our planet? For the well-being of our children? For the protection of animal species? And if it were, would it be ethical or fearfully demonic and cruel?