A dead woman`s a strange thing (2019)

A dead woman`s a strange thing
Video premiered at LUSO, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Paris, 2019*

 

A dead woman`s a strange thing

How does a dead body feel like? What to do with it? To bury, to burn it, to conserve it, to let it be? To forget, to remember it? What`s inevitable and what`s possible? What constitutes death? Would death be defined as opposed to life? What constitutes life? A living woman`s a strange thing.

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A dead woman`s a strange thing (Une femme mort est une chose étrange)

Comment se sent un cadavre? Que faire avec lui? Pour l`enterrer, le brûler, le conserver, le laisser être? L’oublier, se souvenir? Qu`est-ce qui est inévitable et ce qui est possible? Qu`est-ce qui constitue la mort? La mort serait-elle définie par opposition à la vie? Qu`est-ce qui constitue la vie? Une femme vivant est une chose étrange.

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*A dead woman`s a strange thing, 2019, Video, Variable dimensions, 20``
Concept: Vera Sofia Mota
Collaboration: Ana Rita Manuel
Recording, Editing: Ana Rita Manuel & Vera Sofia Mota

Many thanks to: Ana Rita Manuel, Ana Trincão, Mariana Amorim, João Baalman

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*Video Stills. Video: Ana Rita Manuel & Vera Sofia Mota. 

 

© Vera Sofia Mota 2024