In search of contact
From the need to explore themes of contact, freedom and vulnerability, I asked two dancers to engage in a contact improvisation together naked on May 5, 2019 (Liberation Day).
Without a script, with the certainties and uncertainties that life presents, we went in search of each other and ourselves. The film shows an undisguised portrait of how people deal or could deal while communicating: cautious probing alternating with more assertive rapprochement. Clumsiness, discomfort, curiosity, openness, caution, vulnerability, respectful, playful and sometimes serious. At least without masks.
There were moments when three individuals merged into one. Thoughts were in the background, followed by impulsive need to initiate movement. Each pose is like a sculpture.
‘A moving composition of sculptural poses, searching for contact with the other and with ourselves.’
I still use the poses from the video for my paintings, which are becoming increasingly surrealistic. Abstraction and figuration meet in the layered nature of the work.
