This performance film installation depicts the dystopian relationship between three women secluded in their own homes talking to a camera as different alter egos of mythological figures wonder freely bucolic and abandoned places. They dance together but never touch. This fantastical approach is seen as they advance and retreat from each other bodies.
The realisation that the safest place is their own house and that the other is a threat, brings them to extend their bodies in analogical and digital forms to feel connected. As anxiety grows and isolation manifests its consequences, they talk to each other but never listen, no communication is stablished.
Inspired by the work of the German artist Rebecca Horn, this narrative depicts a moment where the famous artist was detained in a sanatorium to treat a serious lung infection. A year where she was left her alone without being touched and had the misfortune to lose both of her parents. A period where she would also create her most known works. Figures with big fingers, heads, shoulders and other body extensions that would reach one another in order to connect.
Today in the midst of COVID 19 crisis. This work reflects on how it is to extend our bodies with technology. To which point can we feel loved and touched without our physical selfs.
This fantastical approach is created as two screens present two narratives that are similar but are never able to communicate or synchronise. Body prosthetics are presented as extensions of the performers´ bodies. Their speech shows inevitable decay, as they live in conflict with their isolated selves and their lyrical forms that are free to wonder.
(film, 14:50s, color)
Directed and choreographed by Gustavo Gomes
Performed by Noemi Martone, Martina Chavez and Roberta Inghilterra
Filmed and edited by Gustavo Gomes
Photography by Avery Anders.
Music by Michalis Paraskakis
Assistance by Alexander Démond
Location by Sabine Tress and Nadjana Mohr
Filmed at KunstWerk Deutz e.V. PiK Deutz
Residency at the Schauspielhaus Köln
Supported by the NRW Kunststiftung