Raquel André works by accumulation. For seven years she has been meeting strangers in unknown flats in various cities around the world. With them, she shared an intimacy that she recorded in photographs. In her Collection of Lovers Raquel has already collected 287 lovers.
In this Lovers’ Exhibition, Raquel André gives a sound guided tour of a house-labyrinth lined with about 1000 of the more than 7000 images in her archive.
In collaboration with the set designer and architect José Capela, this performative installation proposes to reactivate vertigo in the face of what we do not know, in a relationship with the artist’s memory. What is the entrance door? Raquel André invites each spectator to get lost in an infinite space of intimacy, which we do not know where it begins or ends.
Artist: Raquel André
Idea and direction: Raquel André
Dramaturgy: Raquel André
Music: Odete
Ligthing design: Carin Geada
Stage and set design: José Capela
With the colaboration of António Pedro Faria
Light and set design assistant: Ana Carocinho
Production and distribution: Missanga
Artistic collaboration: Leonor Buescu
Video and comunication: Afonso Sousa
Broadcast: Mikado Blue
Coproduction: Teatro do Bairro Alto (TBA)
Project financed by Direção-Geral das Artes / República Portuguesa – Culture
