Scar Stories by Patrizia Paolini

“It’s a bit tender, a bit brutal, a bit sexual. I have a scar on my chin and feel it from time to time.” Patrizia Paolini, a former Battersea Arts Centre Supported Artist, turns diarist, provocateur and detective in a raw, gross, angry and funny account of how various men she encountered came to have scars on their chins. Intercutting an intimate delivery with fragments of video projection, dance and comedy, this one-woman show, in a faltering, hyperventilated delivery where words skip like heartbeats, opens a world of metaphor from the smallest of marks.