smoke|pain

Action, ebó-performance, ebó-installation, 2017

Stones, fire, alcohol, 7 dry leaves;  assorted objects

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9 herb arrangements form a circle and demarcate the space. 9 forces positioned in a circle. An action of repetitions, marking the ground with bare feet, carrying stones, moving them from one space/time to another, moving rocks.

Exhausting the body, effort and weight.

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Smoke|pain is an action of toiling to prepare the body, to smoke other bodies and mine.

Create a territory, a stone settlement on the ground, a circular wall to protect my body. Destroy it and rebuild it in the intensity of the setting sun.

Exhausted... I feel the trance, blinds me.

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I burn the leaves - in a circular motion.

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9 bonfires are lit, sounds and smells.

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I carry the fire in my hands.

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  On injured feet.

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I smoke the space, stop deep cuts with sand, clean my body with smoke.

I leave traces stuck in the earth, in the coming and going of moving rocks from one space-time to another time-space.

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A wall of circular-shaped stones, ashes and embers are seated in the place.

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The action was carried out during an artisanal ceramic firing at the University of Vale do São Francisco.

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Yane Andrade photos