the memory of the memory
Photo: Ricardo Vaz
lengua / agua / gua explores memory, the fragility of remembering and forgetting. Through language and by recreating the sounds that have been passed from one family member to another it plays with the impossibility of giving someone else a memory. It is repetition, of letting stories seep into the walls of the space and into the consciousness of the people listening, of trying to continue to pass on stories and invoking them.
Graduation work, MFA
Performed from May 15th until May 27th 2025, at Bergen Kunsthall.
Performance and performer: Rita Maria Muñoz Farias
Mentor: Nicola Meredith Gunn
Duration: 20-30 minutes
Photographers: Isa Kiviaho, Ricardo Vaz, Michaela Vyskocil Gettwert
Video: Kaja Haven, Rita Maria Muñoz Farias
The project was part of the MFA graduation exhibition I could only see the back of it at Bergen Kunsthall. It was a daily, unannounced, performance that worked with text, found objects, and performance. Some of the questions explored were: “What role can performance play in a group show context?”, “How can/can’t it move in space?”, or “How will it react to the uncertainty of being watched, or by being performed in solitude?”.
Michaela Vyskocil Gettwert
