Ode to the pause: To see and to be seen
What happens when the fourth wall breaks, when the artifice is revealed and the process no longer hides behind the finished work?
Within our production processes, tasks pass from hand to hand. We wanted these movements to become visible in some way, as a way of acknowledging the collective nature of the work.
We live in a time where observing and recording seem inseparable actions. What looks does not always understand what it sees.
Bertolt Brecht developed a new form of theatre that sought to represent the realities of modern times, bringing to the stage the forces that shape human life. In Brecht’s epic theatre, lights and scenographic changes were not hidden. For him, hiding the labor behind the work was a form of illusion.
An invisible choreography emerges within this displacement: the body performs the image it sees; the mirror reveals the one holding the camera, who at the same time remains veiled. Layers of simulated images appear, breaking away from the initial formal aesthetic, reinventing worlds and dislocating the gaze.
Theatre and visual arts share many common grounds. Among them is the pursuit of a distant star: how to transform the viewer’s perception so that they arrive one way and leave another. Inspired by Brecht, we continue to believe that collective forms hold the potential of political imagination.