IL Y A UNE LARME DANS CHAQUE NOTE ET UN SOUPIR DANS CHAQUE PLI
ODETE & CATY OLIVE
Based on a week in creation residency set to explore the resonances of their worlds, Caty Olive and Odete present the result of this first meeting and collaborative project. The organic electronic meanderings, the dissolving borders in Odete’s music, the poetry and trans-performativity in her work, meet the breathing in Caty’s lighting systems and ever mutating light bodies.
An elemental empathy between the work of these two artists runs in the transformative aspects of their creative approaches, one that goes against rigidity and essentialist currents, one that can be found within the particular strain of ecology of bodies and energies that transpires from their work. It inhabits realms where matter and spirit do not delve in dualistic existence but rather in transient permutations of intimate entanglement and fusion, territories bearing prismatic visions, fostering the abilities of light and sound/music to transform, transgress and transfigure monolithic perspectives.
Furthermore, Odete and Olive choose to evoke the character of the castrati and to explore their vocal and aesthetic universe. They propose imagining that these castrati could be a form of fiction in a place whose contours remain fluid, whose dimensions vacillate, which transforms. A space that absorbs the bodies that inhabit it. A place where history might give way to fantasy and speculation, where the baroque dimension of a body is within it, remaining fugitive to the demands for extra clarity in present times.
Created and performed by:
Odete and Caty Olive
Dramaturgical support:
Cru Encarnação
Musical composition support:
Herlander
Co-production:
Fundação de Serralves
BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts
La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris
Support:
This show is presented with the support of the Institut Français and the MaisFRANÇA project, a season conceived by the Institut Français du Portugal with the support of patrons Claude & Sofia Marion Foundation, JC Decaux, BNP Paribas, Mexto and Credibom.
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Caty Olive is a visual artist and light designer. She trained in scenography at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Olive creates spaces of light and shares her activities with architecture, exhibitions, installations, choreographic or musical performances, operas. Integrating choreographic and performative projects within the contemporary scene, she has worked with: Myriam Gourfink, Claudia Triozzi, Vera Mantero, Cindy Van Acker, Tiago Guedes, David Wampach, Donata D'Urso, Joris Lacoste, Yoann Bourgeois, Loic Touzé, Sandrine Anglade, Emmanuelle Huynh , Alexandra Waierstall, Emmanuelle Huynh, Thibaud Croisy, Blanca Li. She collaborates regularly with Christian Rizzo. Through these transversal activities, she privileges artistic experiences and encounters, but also the diversity of means of expression and of artistic uses of technologies. The guiding principle of her work continues to be her interest in the instability and alterations of light, a line consistently drawn from one work to another, in a quest that opens up new worlds.