Fricção (IN)Temporal
Vila Nova de Gaia, 2020
Vídeo-Performance Installation | Time: Loop
Performer: Sónia Carvalho; Vídeo: Marisa Bernardes; Sound Design:
Hugo Paquete; Actress: Maria Inez Espírito Santo; Produccion: EMERGE.
Performer: Sónia Carvalho; Vídeo: Marisa Bernardes; Sound Design:
Hugo Paquete; Actress: Maria Inez Espírito Santo; Produccion: EMERGE.
Installation proposal
The video-performance proposes a dialogue between
two distinct moments of action and temporality; and a video shows a female body
painted in pink and framed by a detailed plan of the pubic area, where it is
activated by the decontextualization of the rubbing gesture - similar to that
of domestic or sexual tasks, such as cleaning activities and hygiene that a
house and a body requires - and a formal game between the floor brushes, and
the female genital organ enters a dialogue of ambivalence. From the rubbing
action to the erotic movement, a sense of communion results with the experience
of the sacred feminine manifested in everyday rituals. The sound that results
from the gesture of rubbing the steel wool brushes causes a state of tension or
even strangeness that is interesting here to provoke and explore before the
seductive image. Thus embracing the phenomenon of “disturbing strangeness” (Das
unheimliche - Freud) as a state of discomfort where something familiar becomes
unknown, generating a sense of its own where the boundaries between the
“domestic-public and private”, the “social and the sexual ”and the“
symbolic-sacred ”and allows a reflection on the condition of women as a place
of strength and effort in a multidimensional field, in a still patriarchal society.
Therefore, this action is accompanied by the video of the unfolding of the
circle, the unfolding of an ancestral time by the hands of an elderly woman,
who in the repetitive gesture induces a state of hypnosis and allows a
historical and corporeal relationship of the passage of symbolic time where a
place cannot be developed, thus allowing a meditation, abstraction from the
task that develops as a loop, hypnotic cycle as a whole.
These
videos were developed as part of the creative process of carrying out the
project “Struggle Like A (WO) Man # 1”, as a result of a workshop directed to the
local community, marked a journey through the city by six participants and the
artist, and was presented within the scope of the Festival Novas Invasões.
And
they result in bodily reflections felt during the creative processes