In Flight with Filipa Bossuet and Vânia Andrade Puma
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Date
- 16:00 / Cancelled 16:00 / Sold out Sunday, 16:00
Location
Foyer Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianThis work calls for the celebration of resting for bodies that express their consciousness through a racing heart. We are invited into a cosy space, where objects and materials transport us to a domestic and familiar dimension, and through which the artists also reflect on the interactions of love and friendship between Black women.
Encouraging a sense of communion and community, this gathering proposes movement as a response to the subjectivities that outside gazes cast upon these bodies. By reacting through dance, Bossuet and Andrade Puma channel ancestral memories in a context where only the ground remains, so they live organically on it.
Biographies
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Filipa Bossuet
Filipa Bossuet (Portugal, 1998) uses painting, performance, photography and experimental video to portray processes of identity, Blackness, memory and healing. Her transdisciplinary work has been shown at venues such as the Belém Cultural Centre, the Bairro Alto Theatre, MAAT and the Cerveira Biennial. She draws on the investigative influences of her training in Communication Sciences and her master’s studies in Migrations, Inter-Ethnicities and Transnationalism, creating a dialogue and questioning between areas of knowledge.
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Vânia Andrade Puma
Vânia Andrade Puma was born in Lisbon in the 1980s. She is a Poet, Performer, Anti-racist, Black Feminist, Vegan and co-founder of the collective Mulheres Negras Escurecidas, a group that aims to create spaces for reflection, sharing and exchanging experiences without judgement. Using the body as her main means of expression, Puma’s practice has been presented in collaborations at MAAT, Festival Iminente, 5L – International Festival of Portuguese Literature and Language and KUBATA – Casa de Potencialização Artística na Linha de Sintra.
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