Bodies of the Border
June 16, 2024
Sunday, 4 PM – Free

Bodies of the Border investigates the limits—physical, symbolic, and social—that cross bodies in contemporary Brazil. The work seeks to reflect on the plurality of bodies that call such borders into question: Black people, women, homosexuals, and those from the peripheries join together in the belief that, together, individualities are strengthened, creating possible micro-cracks for understanding the world today. In times marked by social and symbolic distancing, the work proposes crossing these borders beyond the physicality that separates territories, affirming a longing for encounter, for recognition of one’s own body as a boundary, and for the (s)kinesthetic experience as a ritual of sharing. By recognizing a portrait of the human condition as essentially collective, Bodies of the Border affirms the need to be together, to seek interactions, associations, and ways of coexisting. In the scene, hierarchies among social roles are tested and, in the best of cases, questioned and reconfigured, making room for new forms of relationship, listening, and presence.