My performances are public, but they remain deeply private.
Through Loli, I bring intimate experiences, thoughts and emotions into public space, placing the audience in the position of a voyeur. They are invited to look, but not necessarily to understand or identify with what they see.
The intimacy can feel uncomfortable, strange or even confrontational. It can create compassion, shame, distance or rejection. I am interested in this tension, in what happens when something personal is exposed, and the person watching is forced to decide how close they want to get.
For me, performance is an act of love, you decide whether you want to feel it or deny it.
Flag, boots and parts of my performances at the exhibition “Fake dream, anarchism of love”- Palacio das artes, Porto, 2011.
and then i was there with them
VENICE, 5-2026
-It’s ironic. I was there with them, but they didn’t seem to notice. I became almost invisible.
People are so focused on themselves, on how they are seen and how they present themselves to others. In Venice, everyone seems to be capturing their own presence, sharing it with strangers and with others who are doing the same.
It made me think about how disconnected we can become while constantly trying to connect. How much of our experience is about being seen, rather than seeing.
I was with them, but no one is really with us.
And yet, by being there, I was also truly with myself, giving my presence to others.
#NO NAME
PERFORMANCE #4 FOR REDBULL EVENT PORTO 2011
No Name is a performance about contrasts: strength and fragility, intimacy and distance, love and the unknown. In an abandoned house I move between shadows and light, a figure veiled yet present.
The projection tells its own fragmented story: scenes of Western heroes, haunted beauty, and fleeting moments of joy. Horowitz plays Liszt’s Consolation No. 3, his music filling the space with longing, as my movements shift between drama and sensuality, connection and release. Sentences flash “Never walk when you can ride” a mantra of power, a question of freedom.
There is no resolution here, no simple story. It is an act of confrontation and vulnerability, asking what it means to reveal oneself while remaining hidden. No Name invites the audience into this tension, where meaning emerges in the spaces between what is seen and what is felt. At the end it’s a message to my lover.
#prove u exist
PERFORMANCE #3 PORTO 2011
Prove U Exist was a performance I created in 2010. My performances often hold multiple layers of meaning, blending the personal with the social and global. At the time, the feeling of losing ourselves in the internet and technology wasn’t as dominant as it is today, but there was already a sense of coldness creeping into society, visible in the way we interacted with the news, wars, and the world around us.
This piece came from a deeply personal place. My love for someone who refused to fully be there for me, to commit, or even to truly exist in my life pushed me to confront him. But at the same time, this question wasn’t just for him, it was for everyone. Where are we? Do we really exist? And when do we truly exist?
Today, these questions feel even more urgent. We are becoming like ghosts, so many of us are invisible to one another, lost in our own worlds. Yet, paradoxically, we are so self-centered, consumed by our own existence. This duality, this tension between being unseen and overly focused on the self, is what I wanted to bring to the surface.
The performance was a provocation, a cry for attention, and a mirror for the disconnected world I saw and still see around me.
