Fora

As part of Entre2 BIAC
In Portuguese, Catalan, Sardinian and Occitan, fora means "outside". This eponymous performance is a vibrant tribute to those who live on the margins, defying norms and inventing their own path to freedom. Between constraint and deliverance, Alice Rende fuses two practices of suppleness and illusionism, sculpting her body like a material in tension, making contortion a desperate response to external oppression...

It all begins with a face. Then a groping silhouette. An invisible wall comes into view, a translucent barrier takes shape. The box appears, narrow and closed. Inside, the artist struggles, inhabiting every centimeter with intensity, as if seeking to free herself from social diktats, from the crushing injunctions of a society she rejects. The movements are nervous and restless: crushed faces, distorted bodies, flipping and levitating... It's a fight, an intimate and poignant struggle against an invisible, insidious domination that seeks to leave its mark on the body. But, once the outcome is reached, once she has escaped this invisible prison... is this woman really liberated? Through Plexiglas walls, this powerful solo probes our power of emancipation.