Andrés Morales, Maria Celina Gil, Tainá Macêdo
Agency of Play
Website / Social Media: @andresmoralesmercado, @mariacelinagil, @taina_macedo
“HOW IS YOUR COSTUME AGENTIVE?”
In this project, the costume has a main role, in so far as it is resignified, reaching new forms of comprehension.
BIOGRAPHY
A group formed by a Peruvian visual artist, Andrés Morales, and two Brazilian costumes designers, Maria Celina Gil and Tainá Macêdo, they are also post-graduate students researching in an individual and different way about the boundaries of art and society.
TITLE: Undressing
A costume has many characteristics; its colours, shapes, volumes, textures, movements and origin, can define it. However, it is in the relation with the artist’s body that the performance occurs; thus, we understand a costume as a possible co-author of the performance, along with the performer.
This project, Undressing, was developed from the costume as a trigger to performance, questioning the frontiers between outfits and resignifying them. The Undressing series comprises of three works: Undressing the City, Undressing the Marriage, and Undressing the Woods. Here we have nine pictures in a slideshow, three of each performance. A Hamlet’s Ofelia, dressed as a bride, searching for the opportunity to get rid of the future written for her. An actress wears a theatre costume from a play she never acted in, putting it in a time capsule for the future, reflecting about time and how we deal with the idea of transience. A ballet dancer wears a costume that brings the idea of religion, but dialogues with the forces of nature that lie on a dense forest. In every performance, a costume was displaced from its original context and driven in to another. The performances took place between 2018 and 2019, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
IMAGE CAPTIONS & CREDITS
01 – 03
Undressing the City proposes a reflexion on time and how we deal with the idea of transience. An actress wears a theatre costume from a play she never acted in, removing it from its time and place, putting it in a time capsule for the future.
Andrés Morales, Maria Celina Gil, Tainá Macêdo, Undressing the City, 2018
Costume and set design: Maria Celina Gil, Tainá Macêdo
Actress: Fabiana D’Praga
Foto: Andrés Morales
04 – 06
Undressing the Marriage performance shows a Hamlet’s Ofelia, dressed as a bride (a social outfit used in an actual ceremony), bathing, searching for the opportunity to get rid of the future written for her in the play and from the social imprisonments that are imposed upon her.
Andrés Morales, Maria Celina Gil, Tainá Macêdo, Undressing the Marriage, 2018
Costume and set design: Maria Celina Gil, Tainá Macêdo
Actress: Nairim Bernardo
Foto: Andrés Morales
07 – 09
Undressing the Woods presents a ballet dancer wearing a costume that in its original context represented the power of Christianity. In the performance, the idea of religion dialogues with the forces of nature that lie on a dense forest.
Andrés Morales, Maria Celina Gil, Tainá Macêdo, Undressing the Woods, 2018
Costume and set design: Maria Celina Gil, Tainá Macêdo
Ballerina: Juliana Bargas
Foto: Andrés Morales
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