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Six actors, after individually interviewing the artist, create characters based on her discourses about her recent love stories, mixed with their own love stories and imagined stories. The installation presents these six hybrid characters replying to questions posed by an offscreen man, and trying to articulate their own thoughts and discourses.  Kika Nicolela proposes a reflection about the fictions, narratives and characters that we construct in our own lifes and in every relationship, be it a love relationship or a conversation with strangers. This work has the collaboration of the award winning Brazilian group theatre CIA Hiato.

“The vision of clouds from an airplane refers to moments of transitions between situations of life and creation for the artist, to a state of psychic floating, to a waiting and availability to what may happen in a new place. As to the protagonists, they reflect a work of both construction and deconstruction of the discourse of the self, on the self and the other, rendering unstable the boundaries between portrait and self-portrait, in order to represent the unstable character of the identities. This instability of the identity, its mobility, its plasticity, refers to the key issues that occupy everyone wondering about his identity, his place in the world, on an ontological as well as on physical way, social and cultural, political and aesthetical.”

Tristan Tremeau, critical essay (excerpt)