Fine arts and Performance art exhibition, at ARTES
Comissinoned by Luisa Mota, curated by Rita Roque, Invited curater, Ana Rocha e Sonja Câmara. © André Henriques
“Cleaning nightmares” starts from de concept of “disturbing strangeness” (Sigmund Freud’s “Das Unheimliche”, 1919) of the gesture of cleaning a house – of a house body – where the boundaries between the domestic, the social and the sacred are mixed.
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Wipe,
wipe, wipe, dust, the floor, the bath, the toilet, the eyes, the nose, the
mouth, the story of a body, of a female memory ... and ending the performance in a
vandalistic gesture, tagged, engrave with transparent glue in the already clean
glasses – “Cleaning nightmares”.
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The
action arises from the decontextualization of the gesture of homework, with a
formal match between household gloves and boxer gloves, incorporating the
female stereotype as a place of strength in a multidimensional battlefield, for
a visual reflection on the space of the sacred in the rituals of everyday life.
It is from theses distant universes that gestures will be enacted to construct
a performative narrative, as a reflection on the place of women as a fighter,
in a patriarchal society, that is ours.
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