Synopsis
Toledo, an extension of her choreographic work through the representation of imaginary places impossible to materialize with dancers.
In her dance pieces, as well as in the drawings of this exhibition, monstrous and dreamy references to the baroque and the grotesque emerge from her language. In “Toledo” the choreographies of bodies that, at first glance, seem to be frivolous, are both carnivalesque and macabre, as if they were drawn from rituals, comic strips or horror books.
In an amalgam of bodies that fall, pull, cling, spread, laugh or cry, between the extravagant and the irrational, Tânia Carvalho creates landscapes and abstract figures made up of individual bodies. The drawings are the continuation – or a first gesture – of Carvalho’s questioning of the human condition, loneliness, and her place in the world.
Translated from a text by John Romão