Memórias De Uma Língua De Cão

I think I found activism and feminism when I started to understand the absurdity of the world in which we live. [...] When I embraced the arts, I established a relationship that is not activist in nature. [...] And, for me, it was more of a process of allowing myself to feel, and express myself, and start to believe that this form of expression can be considered art in this world. [...] This emphasis on feeling and healing seems to suggest that the body is central to your work, as an instrument, but also as a theme. [...] And it also points to an interest in issues of intimacy, in breaking down barriers between the personal and the political. [...] Was it also a healing process? Yes, I think this is one of the works that has healed me the most. Being born into a body that is considered to be of a woman implies a toxic relationship with one’s physical appearance. [...] Still relating to the issue of the body and the feminine, in your short film Águas de Março, from 2019, you address the stigma surrounding menstrual flow, as a metaphor to speak about the violence that female bodies, and nature itself, face. [...] One of my methods of working with the body is to do a “scan”, so to speak, which is an attentive and millimetric examination of my own body. [...] So, I am trying to make the intimate relationship between these three monsters more evident, and more translatable to our own forms of expression. [...] I think the LGBTIQ movement has been trying to show that we don’t all fit in one box, that there are infinite ways to express and feel sexuality.