“Elephant Woman: confessions”
Performance. Durée: 1h15min
Le 5 octobre 2023 à Toronto, ON.
LAMAS Latin American Media Arts Symposium
aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival
"Je suis un tourment artistique, je suis une être composite.
Je suis un freak show hypothétique.
A less-than-human, beyond-the-mythical figure embodies the disappointments rooted in the migrant experience and the hurdles of escaping the stereotypes delineating diasporic identities. Montréal-based performer Helena Martín Franco’s persona, the Elephant Woman, disturbs the space she occupies—the colonial space, an always already violent ground, where individuals and communities are classified within a hierarchical system of value.
The elephant woman arises from a failed affair: that of the migrant and the local, the alien and the native. An inevitable heartbreak, resulting from inequitable power relations traversed by guilt, disenchantment, and taboos burdening a body whose slippery and unclassifiable nature renders it disquieting. Martín Franco embodies a fiction, a chimera, a fantasy that overflows the flesh and spoken language.
The performance will run for approximately 45 minutes."
"La mujer elefante surge de un romance fallido: el de la migrante y el local, la extranjera y el nativo. Un desamor inevitable, resultado de relaciones de poder desiguales atravesadas por la culpa, el desencanto y los tabúes que pesan sobre un cuerpo cuya naturaleza resbaladiza e inclasificable lo vuelve inquietante. Martín Franco encarna una ficción, una quimera, una fantasía que desborda la carne y el lenguaje hablado."
« ... The elephant woman arises from a failed affair: that of the migrant and the local, the alien and the native. An inevitable heartbreak, resulting from inequitable power relations traversed by guilt, disenchantment, and taboos burdening a body whose slippery and unclassifiable nature renders it disquieting. Martín Franco embodies a fiction, a chimera, a fantasy that overflows the flesh and spoken language. "
LAMAS Latin American Media Arts Symposium
aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival
@alucineto
Photos: Mamda Arturo @magda_arturo_936traveler