OUR DEAD ONES

In the year 800 A.D, a group of byzantine scholars leaded by John of Caesarea agreed that the first thing we loose after death is our face. Once life has flown away, the identity made of gestures, family marks and race and gender traces was erased. They said it was a liberation, a weight that we loose immediately and made us equals with others: 'They walk in eternity without face, they can see and smell but there are no gestures or signs of what they have lived or where they come from. They are souls emancipated from their faces, they melt with what surround them, they look like everyone walking besides them. They walk, next to each other.'
I invited the spectators to a silent walk in a cemetery, where the idea of heritage and ancestors is collectively revisited.

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Guides and texts- Juan Laxagueborde y Agustina Muñoz
Curator: Martina Juncadella

This performance was conceived as part of the curatorial program of Triple XXX (Marina Daiez, María Luz Lobo, Martina Juncadella, Guido Poloni y Federico Cantini) in Centro Cultural Recoleta in 2017.