foto de Joana providência

JOANA
PROVIDÊNCIA

AURÉLIA DE SOUZA/ AUTORRETRATOS

2023

Dança no Museu is a multidisciplinary artistic project, with general conception by Joana Providência, which configures the articulation between visual arts, dance and video. The project proposes the creation of two artistic objects around existing works of art in six extensions of the City Museum: a performance-installation and a video-dance.

In 2023 the cycle debuted with creations based on the iconic painting by Aurélia de Souza, her self-portrait as Saint António, which is part of the exhibition “METAMORFOSES – Vegetal, Mineral and Animal Immanence in the Romantic domestic space” and the “red” self-portrait . The project values a set of elements of the work, as an object of choreographic creation such as the play of shadow and light that allows the outlines that determine the final image to be traced. The portrait as a representation of representations: the painter/model who exposes and hides himself in an "unlikely" cover of Saint Anthony, the face as a privileged bodily zone of communication and expression, and the center of the art of portraiture, as the face "has all the forms of the world" (in this case, supported by the expressiveness of the hands).

The issue of similarity and dissimilarity sought by the artist for her self-representation, implying relationships between the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the introspective and intervening and the strong climate of subjectivation, visible throughout a context chosen for self-representation, which cannot be unrelated to the fact that the Franciscan habit is commonly used as death clothing, thus a representation between the death mask and the fixing of an image for "eternity".

Artistic Direction → Joana Providência

Interpretation → Daniela Cruz

Image Realization and Montage → Pedro Neves

Music → Pedro “Peixe” Cardoso

Costumes → Lola Sousa

Photographs → António Alves, Rui Pinheiro (paintings)

Scene's photographs → Pedro Figueiredo

Image Assistant → Ricardo Leite

Executive production → Rosa Bessa

Lighting → Rodrigo Gomes, André Fanqueiro, Ana Moreira, Pedro Vieira de Carvalho

Technical support → João Martins, João Brito, Tomé Lopes

Executive Production of the Porto Museum → Ana Amorim

Production Directorate of Teatro do Bolhão → Glória Cheio

Production → Teatro do Bolhão with the collaboration of Museu do Porto

Production and Post-production video → Red Desert


Premiere on June 16, 2023, Dance at the Museum.

Romantic Museum, Porto Museum

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