PeuP-

Video performance - São Paulo / Frankfurt am Main - Creation

Kanal – Centre Pompidou
Akenkaai / Quai des Péniches 
1000 Brussels

• 21/05  | 20:30
• 23/05  | 19:00
• 25/05  | 19:00
• 26/05  | 17:00

€ 8 / € 6 (-25/65+)
40min
FR / EN / PT > NL / FR

Meet the artist after the performance on 23/05

Dudu Quintanilha’s art is rooted in the city. The Brazilian artist develops it in dialogue with people he meets by chance on his urban wanderings. In São Paolo, where he lives and works, he is one of the founders of Mexa, a project aimed at and involving some of the most socially vulnerable in the city. In Brussels, during a residence lasting several weeks, he visits skate parks and community centres, engages in conversation, and invites the people he has got to know to join him in his canal-side studio. At the end of this process, a video creates a set of performative acts by improvised “actors” who – provoked, seduced and (dis)oriented – reveal to the camera aspects of their personalities that they themselves were unaware of. In these “performative videos”, the body and the language seem to send signals from a dark place. They say what consensus cannot articulate. “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world” (J. G. Ballard)