Da série: “Struggle Like A (WO)Man #1”, Sónia Carvalho, 2019. Fotografia Marisa Bernardes.
Fountains, reservoirs, laundries as a place of a community meeting. These are public spaces that not only served as water supplies, but also (still do) for domestic chores, where women would gather to do laundry, catch up on the conversation, and let their voices sing in stray songs. The artist also assumes them as places of meditation and contemplation, whose water and its mirror properties give rise to a confrontation with themselves as a way of studying the limits of the performing body and its inner anguish, questions and strangeness – or even same terror – of your self.
This action results in a performance with local participants and photographic interventions at the historic center of Torres Vedras. The results incorporate the feminine stereotype as a place of strength in a multi-dimensional battlefield. This addresses the phenomenon of “disturbing strangeness” (Sigmund Freud’s Das Unheimliche, 1919) as a state of discomfort, where something familiar to us becomes unknown. This disturbing strangeness of something that is not exactly mysterious generates a sense of its own where the boundaries between the domestic, the social and the sacred are mixed.
Workshop developed with the local community for the creation of a performanece from 20th until 23rd August.
The public presentations of the performance will take place at Chafariz S- Miguel in Torres Vedras Parque do Choupal on August 30th and 31st from 18h to 18h30.
Artist Sónia Carvalho
Curatorship Jorge Reis
Project management Daniela Ambrósio
Photography Marisa Bernardes
Costiumes Guita Gonçalves
Participants
Daniela Duarte
Filipa Miranda
Inês Nunes
Graça M. Pires de Oliveira
Graça Pereira
Maria Carmo Moreira
Maria Eduarda Sousa
Maria Inez do Espírito Santo
Odete Mendes
Production EMERGE
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