GRACE AND JOHN [Paper Sculpture]
Photographs by Patrícia Almeida with the collaboration of the performers Cláudia Dias and António Pedro Lopes.
Based on an exercise created by João Fiadeiro for the show “Para Onde Vai a Luz Quando se Apaga” (“Where Does the Light Go when it’s Off”).
Text: Improvisation by Cláudia Dias, António Pedro Lopes, João Fiadeiro and Márcia Lança.
Edited by Patrícia Almeida and David-Alexandre Guéniot.
Printing : Inkjet print on MOAB Entrada Rag Natural 300 gsm paper.
Dimensions: 25x25x2 cm (closed) 200x50x25 cm (opened as paper sculpture).
Box by Manuel Leitão and Mike Goes West (silkscreen).
February 2014.
Edition of 10. Numbered.
Price on request: info@ghost.pt
"GRACE: John, I don't feel confortable like this.
JOHN: Yeah, I know. I know it's hard to stay here. I know you are afraid. I know you don't trust me much. I know you don't believe in us, together.
GRACE: It's almost twelve.
JOHN: When it's twelve, I am going to say something important. Are you ready?"
"GRACE AND JOHN" comes from the collaboration between the photographer Patrícia Almeida and the performers Cláudia Dias and António Pedro Lopes at the time they were rehearsing the play "Where Does the Light Go when it's Off" by the Portuguese choreographer João Fiadeiro. Through daily rehearsals, the performers started to create two characters, Grace and John, whose relationship is ambiguous and flexible: wife and husband? lovers? brother and sister? simples friends? This ambiguity gives birth to unexpected and slightly absurd dialogues.
GRACE AND JOHN
Paper Sculpture
