A ENTREVISTA is an exhibition Project by P28, which consists in the switching of roles between guest artists and plastic arts artists from the atelier at the CHPL rehabilitation centre.
In this creative process, The Guest Artist performs the role of the mould, the model to be reproduced. The interview is also an aesthetic addendum, which is part of the intervention.
The “identity” mould is the neutral element of the “multiplication”, i.e, of its dissemination. In this equation, the mould’s reflexivity assimilates all the elements as equal and valueless, becoming a component of equivalence.
The concept of identity is developed in order to understand how the individual interacts from a relational point of view with the exterior. This pattern is developed in stages: the “I” as “you”, the subject in relation with the neighbouring objects, the experience of the environment and the ongoing occurrence and experiencing of identity.
The recognition of the “I”, of the singularity of the individual, corresponds to the psychodramatic element of the mirror. We all recognise the persistence and admiration of children when they see themselves reflected in the mirror (in the beginning the child does not understand what it sees, an image of itself). When it finally understands that the reflected image is his own it is because he has reached, in his maturing, a critical point, an important progress in its self-knowledge, overcoming the first stage of the process of knowing oneself.
The next stage is the recognition of the “you” – the others. This progress (/process) of recognition derives from the empathetic capacity of “switching roles”.
Through this exchange, and from the perspective of identity, A ENTREVISTA acts as a unifying synthesis – the collecting of information such as “social concept” which is connected to the spontaneity of individual content. The “now” and spontaneity become part of the same creative and aesthetic process.
The mould defines a prescribed function assumed by the individual as the “real and tangible shape in which the “I” manifests itself”, going from the dramatic to the social. For the latter, the role either refers to an imaginary person, a model for existence, or a character from social reality, an imitation of life or a tangible form of the “I”. In these different definitions and conceptions one can tell that the roles have something in common: they are observable phenomena that surface in the field of action, presenting and representing accessible aspects of the “I”.
Anabela Soares (an artist from the plastic arts atelier) works around the filmography of director Emir Kusturica, namely the film Black Cat, White Cat. In this process of role playing, Anabela interprets actions and movement, creating sculptures about childhoods and dreams.