What if we were paper?
What if we were paper?
2019

“Would we be soft and white like cotton, or sour and yellow like we were decomposing? Perhaps porous and flexible, or thick and rigid. With a strong sound or fragile and delicate as when someone rubs the skin. We would like to be filled with memories that run like ink, but that are perpetuated in the stale odor of these papers wrinkled by life."


Night Shift – May 18 (International Museum Day)

What if we were paper?
2019

“Would we be soft and white like cotton, or sour and yellow like we were decomposing? Perhaps porous and flexible, or thick and rigid. With a strong sound or fragile and delicate as when someone rubs the skin. We would like to be filled with memories that run like ink, but that are perpetuated in the stale odor of these papers wrinkled by life."


Night Shift – May 18 (International Museum Day)

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What if we were paper?

Artistic direction: Helena Oliveira

Collective creation

Interpreters: Ana Maria Pintora, Diogo Rodrigues, Sérgio Figueiredo, Hélder Silva, Rafael Magalhães, Fábio Almeida, Flávio Santos, Manuel Magalhães, Tiago Almeida, and Gabriel Freitas.

Light Design: Master Som

Music- Arvo Pärt

Silentium, My heart’s in the highlands, Ludus, Für Alina 1976, Sabat Mater For Choir and String Orchestra

Costumes: Casa dos Choupos and Obra do Frei Gil

Co-production: Paper Museum Terras de Santa Maria and Casa dos Choupos

Acknowledgments: Municipality of Santa Maria da Feira and Cerci-Feira