LAWAL
Fitzroya cupressoides.
the cusp happiness.
eternal loneliness.
A stroll through the Alerce Andino Park, home to the ancient pine trees of the Chilean Patagonia, a woman is faced with her
finitude and temporality in the face of the eternity of natural elements. United by what flows, prints and has no name, space
becomes time and the day becomes the saga of a vertigo.LAWAL, cypress in the indigenous language Mapuche, names this walk in the rural property of Pico do Refúgio. In it, we resume the experience of a choreographer in the Chilean landscape reenacted in the Azorean territory, an installation-promenade conceived in collaboration between the choreographer Gustavo Ciríaco and the architect Gonçalo Lopes in dialogue with choreographer Javiera Péon-Veiga.
Based in Santiago, Javiera Péon-Veiga, in her work, it is the body and its rhythms that guide her in the creation of immersive environments and works based on either the syncope of breathing, the heartbeat, or the vertigo of sex.
Inaugurated at the 10th edition of Walk&Talk – Arts Festival, LAWAL is the first piece to premiere of the collection Covered by Sky, a project that unites performing and visual arts in the relationship between art and landscape, between poetic discourse and world experience. With a view to creating a collection of installations and performances designed by choreographer Gustavo Ciríaco, the project takes place in collaboration and dialogue with artists from Portugal, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, United Kingdom and Chile, in the areas of music, dance, sculpture, painting and performance. Based on outstanding experiences of landscapes lived by visual and performing arts artists, the project launches itself in their translation into installations of an architectural, sound, visual, sculptural or performance nature. For each guest artist interviewed, a landscape experience is collected and subsequently implemented.
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