The two headed horse. Reenactment in ten acts

Exploration of the transformation of a fixed image into a performed image. 

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This work resignifies the photographs of a previous series named The two headed horse –self-portraits with my twin sister that revolve around memory and fiction. Conceived as a performance, the recreation of the representation seeks to explore the power of the body to dis-organize the frames in which images have been inscribed and to open a crack in the structures that bestow meaning.

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"The two headed horse. Reenactment in ten acts constantly problematises how to break with an existing order while not continuing to affirm the representation dynamics of the territories imposed on us. How to promote artistic practices that are not reduced to repeating learned gestures but rather serve to destabilise the apparent regularity of the traces that affirm and constantly reinforce certain identifications? Crossing thresholds where constructed meanings teeter, venturing towards border areas, reminding ourselves that all borders are simultaneously spaces where boundaries are set and whether their rupture is at stake. Borders are not only lines that separate: they are also interstices, places where there is no permanence, only flow and desire. Hence their fragility. "

Andrea Soto Calderón