23 hours — a 2025 durational performance with Lillian Fellmann, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica/LA
23 hours is a duration and performance piece that interrogates language as a place of limits and isolation. Two people tell each other the story of their lives. Willing to share but separated by the fact that each of them speaks a language the other one does not understand. Lillian uses her native language Swiss German, while I do the same by speaking Portuguese; no specific rules are attached to this encounter, nothing is rehearsed. This project refers not only to cultural displacement, but also to language as a signifying system, and the body as the first and last resort of communication.