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Remembering “Entertainment” 💜 Created and directed by me Dancers: @paulaatato @candelacapitan and me Original Music: @aire____ Costume director: @rosacodina Costumes: @palomawool Dramaturgical advice: @robertofratiniserafide Coproduced by @elamor_org Support: @sat_teatre @cultura_cat @tanzhauszuerich @estranydelamotaartadvisors @sanau_dansa @112.lab @nauivanow

BODY ON PAPER a project composed by a solo performance, an installation and a photography book. 2017-2019 Japan-Bcn-Madrid supported by @granerbcn @centrocoreograficocanal @acecultura @kyotoartcenter @amorprojects Premiered in @festival_salmon 🤜🏻🇯🇵🇪🇸🤛🏻

Vuelve SCREENSAVER, un proyecto estrenado allá por el 2014 en el @festival_salmon ahora en @azkunazentroa en colaboración con @lafundicionbilbao , será en Noviembre de este año. Todo un acontecimiento retomar este trabajo tan significativo para mi.

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Some pictures from ALIEN 👽 at @steinslandberliner @the_space_sthlm thank you 🙏 📸 @photographedbyknotan Supported by: @embajada_espana_en_suecia @granerbcn @elamor_org @bcncultura @nauivanow @stockholmskonstnarligahogskola When astronauts return to Earth after seeing it from such a distance, reality takes on shades of fiction. The planet, once abstract and intangible, grows in size, too vast to comprehend, while the observer feels smaller, almost vanishing. Words fail, and their sense of self expands beyond known boundaries. It is in this expansion, in this slipping of the real into the fictional, that ALIEN begins. This work explores the boundaries of the human and its corporeality: a body that, like Earth seen from afar, becomes unrecognizable, a shifting image in which we lose ourselves and rediscover ourselves as something new. Here, the body is not merely a "tool" for communication but a site of estrangement and resistance, a space where self and identity are suspended in weightlessness, opening up to new potentialities.

ALIEN, my ongoing solo practice, will be presented tomorrow at @steinslandberliner / @the_space_sthlm in Stockholm and also on Nov 14th at @terrranova in Barcelona. Until soon! 👽🫶🏻🌸 It is said that when astronauts return to Earth after seeing it from so far away, reality takes on nuances of fiction for them. The planet ceases to be an abstract and elusive notion; while the observer becomes smaller, the planet becomes larger, too large. Common words are no longer enough, and self-awareness expands beyond its limits. Supported by @granerbcn @bcncultura @nauivanow @elamor_org @stockholmskonstnarligahogskola

“ALIEN” my ongoing practice will be presented in @the_space_sthlm at @steinslandberliner on Nov 8th at 18pm. 👽🫶🏻🌹 I hope to see you there ✨ It is said that when astronauts return to Earth after seeing it from so far away, reality takes on shades of fiction for them. The planet ceases to be an abstract and elusive notion; while the observer becomes smaller, the planet grows larger, too large. Common words are no longer enough, and self-awareness expands beyond its limits. Alien, along with a series of pieces created over the past three years, stems from a continuously evolving practice dedicated to exploring and speculating on the human body as an instrument, investigating its inherent purpose and its possible alternative uses and functions. Within this framework, new ways of embodying my body in the communicative act arise, both in performance and in everyday life. I pose various questions about our role in communication as speaking beings and consider the possibility of a more “human” operativity that transcends certain established limits and stereotypes. Thus, the opportunity arises to create new codes of dialogue and understanding, where the sensory, gesture, and subjectivity become essential elements that invite us to authentically inhabit and share space-time together. “Alien” unfolds in a fictional realm where forms blur, and the senses merge, reinterpreting and recreating our notion of what it might mean to be human, offering us the possibility of becoming “something else.”

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Very soon, I will be showing this in Stockholm.. Stay tuned!! 🫶🏻👐🏻🤜🏻✨🤛🏻🖖🏻🤞🏻👈🏻

These days 🌸 here we are

Memories from @laveronal times 🖤 ✨#siena

🔈🔉🔊…Language is the sovereign that, in a permanent state of exception, declares that there is not outside of language, that it is always beyond itself.