EDNI - Né Barros

At the intersection of performance and media art, Né Barros and João Martinho Moura have developed work where presence, memory and the duplication of universes are articulated in alternative narratives. EDNI is João Martinho Moura's expression for a Dense and Unlimited Space which, in this project, is presented as a magnetic field and where AI transforms images of two women: the body producing an initial movement and the body of the reinterpreted movement.

On stage there is a giant, magnetic pendulum, which guides and attracts and which, together with the performer, translates this limited and dense space. There, the gesture tests forces, attraction and distances between bodies are played out. This is a material place that naturally follows physical laws. It is in dialogue with this simultaneously physical and fictional place that projections of images appear, at the limit of their distortion, of women who summon up a serenity and suspension of a memory of a matrix and sensual body. These bodies reveal a condition of women as trans-temporal images. EDNI is a hybrid show in which the performing body, the projected images and a pendulum materialise a magnetic field and a poetic relationship between the three entities. Edni features scenography by the FAHR 021.3 collective and a performance by Vivien Ingrams and is a co-production with the Aveirense Theatre as part of the National Capital of Culture.

Double

Image. Pendulum. Body. Woman. In this fictional space, images of two women transform, mutate. Movement-matrix and movement-representation. Two bodies summon past, present and future. The matrix movement of the absent body, the author and memory. The present body, the performer and the future place. Basically, particles in an Unlimited Dense Space (EDNI). Matter that interrupts and determines. History that could tell of a woman's condition. For a moment, a mouth that opens to a mute voice. It speaks of itself, but nothing is heard. Body, animal, flesh and skin that hides the colour of blood and which the images mix and project a mutant, serene and unsettling body. As if everything were under control. Matter that says nothing, moves in time, interrupts time. The pendulum marks time and place, it reminds us of our limits. We spin on it.

- Né Barros