Nora’s body, scenic essay on emotions and flesh

Gallery D Nasco Art
Havana, Cuba, February 2017
The Trailer Collective

This artwork moves among theater, performance and exhibition and explores biographies of anti-model female bodies, not regulated by the media image pattern.

We are a multidisciplinary team made up of a “Collective Voluminous Dance” ballerina, two playwrights-directors, four visual artists/performers (one of them, invited from Colombia), a sociologist/expert of life and a man (THE BUTCHER).

The investigation is documentary and collective. It reveals testimonials, life stories and elements to build the actions, installations, scenographic objects and the text, inspired in turn by the work of Elfriede Jelinek (What happened to Nora after she left her husband’s house or Pillars of societies) and the photographers Cindy Sherman and Sarah Lucas. It has been presented in a gallery, a “clinical” space that resizes the exhibition quality of the female body, supported by the media empire.

All these presences, thus, emerge as the flesh-metaphor of the bodies of real women who disagree, who strain that empire. This is a gesture to emphasize the tension. The bodies are ironic, playing with themselves, and are sarcastically exposed in an exhibition space as art objects.

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CREDITS

Performers
Gabriela Reyna
Greta Reyna
Maylin Lázara Padrón
Anisia Castro

Texts and direction
Alessandra Santiesteban
Karina Pino Gallardo

Visuals/ Installations
Julio Llopiz Casal

Invited visual artist
Luna Acosta

Production
Amelia Acosta

Photographic and audiovisual documentation
Amaya Oria Portuondo

Collaboration
Gallery D Nasco Art (Havana, Cuba)

Funding
Project supported/granted by the Call for the promotion of cultural projects in Cuba. Embassy of Austria and Embassy of Norway in Havana.

Reviews
El cuerpo de Nora no es solo ella by Laura Ruiz Montes