This new creation, Cabeça-Coração, takes the head (“cabeça”) and the heart (“coração”) as its starting points, placing them as observers and participants in a work of art. This gaze, in which we picture ourselves as work and artist, carries within it the possibility of giving rise to a faint flame inside of us, a fire that Empedocles believed Aphrodite had placed in our eyes.
Starting from Stendhal syndrome, the experience of vertigo, tachycardia and hallucinations in the presence of many works of art, the work feeds on these effects on the body, taking the head and the heart as physical and symbolic spaces for artistic creation. The works of art cited here are the works of the visual artists with whom we will be collaborating, taking their connections to the body(ies) as a reference, whether this is a live encounter within their work or a metaphorical presence. These works live with us, they are our lives, our stories and our temptations. As we create their story, we create our own, revealing the possible secrets of a work of art. — Bruno Alexandre
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