Installations
17 December 2023
Opening #12
Performance by Natalia Blanch and Lisa Da Boit
Studio Étangs noirs, Grand Studio, Brussels, Belgium
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Snodo project: drawings, paintings, videos
Réparation project: painting, textile
For the performance at Opening #12 on 17 December 2023, Lisa Da Boit and I presented in public a stage of creation of the ongoing project Snodo.
We performed a moment of encounter between the plastic material - painted hand sewn paper -, the choreography and the space. The painting, surface where I perform, contains the meticulous and slow hand sewing gestures I made for its assembly and the vigorous ones to capture with chalk the choreographer's dance.
Lisa developed the idea of walking, a walk made up of lines, angles, and changes in direction. As she expressed “In my walk a whole range of sensations, thoughts, questions are included: changing my mind, repeating the same route, retracing my steps. And: hesitating, staggering, suspending, accelerating... In the linearity and ease of walking, a question advances at the same pace: what if it could not be like this? This is where the stumbling begins, the startle, the loss of stable ground... These hooks, these knots then echo feelings of fear and insecurity as well as a danger which becomes a concrete threat.”
On the table performance, Lisa and I started from the idea of wandering and territory (in relation to the source of inspiration for my hand sewn painting, the rice fields). We sought a relationship, a shared space, a dialogue, a tension. —
