28 apr to 10 mai 2025
creative residency
Performing Arts Centre of the Algarve CAPa
sur le nature des choses invisibles
Monia Montali & François Bodeux
Belgium
duration 30 min
concept and direction Monia Montali & François Bodeux
performance Aliénor H.
sound composition Miquel Casaponsa
choreography Monia Montali
scenographic design and construction Francois Bodeux
costumes Anne_Catherine Kunz
dramaturgy Antia Diaz Otero
production Omero asbl
coproduction (ongoing) Charleroi Danse, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles à Paris, La Coop, Shelter Prod (tax shelter of belgian governement)
support (ongoing) DeVIR/CAPa – Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
© omero.studio
SNCI#2
Performance for a lighting disc, a perfomer and a musician
‘Sur la Nature des choses invisibles #2’ is part of a multiform cycle of performances and installations where alternative ways of looking at and relating to the senses arise. We are attempting to create devices that will alter the experience of time, shift the viewer’s gaze and open up new areas of the imagination.
SNCI #2 was initially conceived as an loop installation. A luminous disc hangs in an empty space and irradiates a dense, warm light. Between the light source and the public eye, filters give the light body and volume. The technological device adopts a complex pattern in which random variables influence predetermined scenarios. As a result, the eye experience a field of perception where light shifts from a state of almost tangible substance to one where it becomes the very substance of the entire space – a space irradiated with colour. The device subtlety reminds us that seeing is not equivalent to grasp what we see.
At DeVIR/CAPa, we will work on a 30-minute performance as an inflexion within the installation. With the performer and singer Aliénor H., we will explore the relationship between the body, the light disc and the sound environment processed in real time.”