Struggle Like A (Wo)Man # 1
Torres Vedras, Portugal, 2019
Workshop
“Struggle Like A (Wo)Man # 1” as a result
of a workshop aimed at the local community, in four intensive days, marked a tour of the city by six
participants and the artist, and was presented at the Festival Novas Invasões (http://novasinvasoes.pt) having been
one of the selected projects under creation incentive program promoted by the
Municipality of Torres Vedras, Portugal.
As result from this workshop it was produced a photographic interventions by the historic center of Torres Vedras.
© Photography by Marisa Bernardes
As result from this workshop it was produced a photographic interventions by the historic center of Torres Vedras.
© Photography by Marisa Bernardes
The theoretical and practical workshop started with
self-awareness exercises of our perceptions of stereotyped behaviors related to
the female condition - from everyday gestures, in the service of cleaning — in
these repetitive actions the propose was to explore in itself a spiritual
dimension, and thus inciting the unconscious with rituals (of passage) - of
transformation. Still perceive our individual experience in the collective,
bringing to consciousness this reality. It is important in this workshop to
understand the body as a wrapping of ancestral emotions, traumas and archetypes
and to understand how these memories shape our body, physical, energetic and
spiritual, as well as our mind and thus influence our life experience, explored
in the context of contemporary art.
