Performances

Sewn of red thread

It is an ancestral gesture, the delicate movement of the needle which circulates, coils, threads. The concentration of the seamstress at work.
Installed in the window of a busy street, at the interface of public and private spaces, Renata Andrade denounces violence against women by weaving on her own skin the degrading speeches suffered by women on a daily basis. Whether in the street or in the privacy of their homes, women, from an early age, are the target of sexist remarks that print themselves on their skin and mark them with a hot iron. In the window of this former fine lingerie store, the artist also highlights the link between the objectification of women's bodies, commonly used as a promotional tool, and its consequences in terms of social violence.

Declaration of love

At what point does a motive of national pride become an object of isolation? "Declaration of love" questions the concept of integration into a simple dialectic: can you live in a country and not love one of the elements that make up his identity? This work echoes the work of Levy-Strauss and Bettini which questions the construction of identity in its xenophobic form: how to be "me" without rejecting "the other"? In Tristes tropiques, Levy-Strauss thus puts on the same level the anthropophagy of the Indians of Brazil, who eat the other in order to appropriate their qualities, with the anthropemia of Western societies, which, literally, vomit the other. This work thus highlights the fine line between openness to the other and construction of oneself.

Entremear

Realização: Grupo O´Culto 

Atuantes: Renata Andrade e Cleide Vieira

Conceito:

Ate onde vai a criação do homem? Ate onde vai o homem criador?

Na necessidade de se tornar eterno o homem cria, constrói e acaba morto pela sua própria criação – O Criador sede o seu nome para criatura que ganha vida e se eterniza,a obra supera o criador.

Apresentada no Congresso Nacional de Técnicas das Artes do Fogo (CONTAF) e em Mairinque