by Margarida Montenÿ and Carminda Soares

Simulacro is an exercise around intimacy, repetition and resistance. Two bodies in continual exertion explore the limits of their proximity by the degenerative nature of the gesture. A diffuse space is created between the real and the fictional, between the public and the private, increasing the conditions of vulnerability, expectation and tension.

Simulacro derives from a collection of actions and gestures present in the close relationship between the two performers, crossed by vestiges of shared memories, in a slow process of transformation of the bodies and their pulsations.