4th and 15th December
Safra
Who is a woman when no one is watching? Who is the one the light brings into view?
Skiagrafia: uma fantasmática do corpo is a performative installation that evokes the phantasmatic bodies photographed, drawn and projected by three portuguese artists: Lourdes Castro, Ana Vieira and Helena Almeida. Drawing on Lourdes Castro's Teatro de Sombras (Shadow Theatre), the work explores shadow, the presence of absence and female invisibility, in a poetic territory between the intimate and the universal.
The title comes from the Greek skia (shadow) and graphia (writing, drawing): a writing of shadows, in which the body becomes a surface of inscription for what remains unseen.
Between intimate gestures and phantasmatic bodies, private life becomes a place of apparitions. In the small gestures of an existence, something is revealed. Or perhaps reinvented.
Artistic Direction, Choreography, Performance, Installation | AnaVitória
Lightning Design | Luis Moreira
Video, Sound Editing | Nuno Veiga
Costumes, Props | AnaVitória, Ney Madeira e Carla Reis
Still Photography | Bruno Veiga
Video Capture, Editing | Mariana Macedo
She is a postdoctoral researcher in Performance Arts at the Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and holds a PhD in Arts, specialising in Body Performance, from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO, Brazil). An award-winning choreographer and artistic director since 1995, she is also a performer and visual artist, having created numerous installations and screendance works exploring…