Valley of Here

©️ Fátima Vargas

VALLEY OF HERE is a constant search for places and non places in the individual bodies that mirror each other, relating the theme of belonging with the need for emotional accommodation for the creation of homogenous collectives. The constant collection of ephemeral landscapes opens the door to choices and escapes from hectic events, wrapped in an archaeological survey of the biological space that accompanies us on this ephemeral path.
This creation urges from the root of the word belonging, from the need to be connected, from the search for a place and someone, from the search for us here.

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You will break me consecutively in the hope of saving a shard, of plucking a thread, of revealing the shadow of your reflection in a crack of mine.

My body doesn't know me, I never knew what I wanted to be. You never wanted yourself. Everywhere I look I see pink mountains of grief that grind this path of the moment. Our souls are flooded with consecutive white tears. The pale flowers of navels wither in the beat of the sound of time, mirrored in the windows of this endless arch...
We came back together from different surfaces and you unveiled my body as an archeology of contours.

Our bodies are non-places, a landscape, a mirage through which they pass consecutively without seeing that we are not from here, that this space does not swallow us, that belonging is really scarce.

And if I inhabit you? Can I tell you that I am yours and that you are mine and that I belong inside you?

Daniel Matos

Adriana Xavier, Hugo Cabral Mendes, Mélanie Ferreira, Rodrigo Teixeira e Lia Vohlgemuth

Ana Silva & Leonor Lopes

Nelson Nunes

Daniel Matos & Joana Flor Duarte

Gi Carvalho & Daniel Matos

Rodrigo Rosário

Fátima Vargas & Rodrigo Rosário

Bruna Porto

Joana Flor Duarte

CAB Studios, Vitor Córdon / OPART Studios, EIRA, Escola de Dança de Lagos, Cia Olga Roriz.

CAMA a.c.

Leroy Merlin

Fundação GDA

Município de Lagos & Teatro Experimental de Lagos

Francisco Pedro, Margot Suzi & Rodrigo Lemos

Beatriz Marques Dias & Davide Vicente