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When Angels talk about love

by Henrique Furtado Vieira, 2025

Based on other representations and ideas of "angels", at other scales, the aim is to question the prejudices and problematise the definitions about what love is and also violence, and which are operating on our bodies. Since angels transmit messages that pass through us through the meaning they give to our bodies, it is interesting to understand how the fruitfulness of speech manifests itself: how it passes from meaning to flesh, giving birth to bodies. In this context, it's important to re-appropriate through the body the acts of speech that condition and oppress us, not by destroying language but by making it a physical and carnal experience, looking for an embodied way of relating, of freeing ourselves and disengaging, as far as possible, from the tragic consequences of the "structural violence" resulting from the cultural, social and historical devices that shape our behaviour and affections, particularly amorous and sexual. It is in this fold of the body that speaks, which is closer to pre-speech than speech, that the disconnection between the systems of power that dominate us and which claim to be very stable, logical and predictable, and the body that always proposes relationships of a different order is exposed.

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Conception, artistic direction (and performance)
Henrique Furtado Vieira

Performance and co-creation
Catarina Vieira, Leonor Mendes, Sérgio Diogo Matias

Production
O Rumo do Fumo

O Rumo do Fumo is financed by República Portuguesa - Cultura | Direcção-Geral das Artes