Mistura#8 is an exhibition gathering traces and reverberations of a performance that inhabits the boundary between body, landscape, and ecological imagination.

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Developed in the context of the Linha de Fuga Festival in 2024, with plants and people from Coimbra, at the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra, Mistura#8 was an immersive experience proposing a sensitive drift among plants, paths, and presences, activating the space as a territory of listening, relation, and transformation.

That year, Linha de Fuga invited choreographer Carlota Lagido, also a costume designer and skilled at capturing sensitive images, to photograph this project. Her photographs, gathered in this exhibition, capture moments when the body merges with the world – when touch, listening, and movement allow it to become flower, plant, shadow, or breeze.

Mistura stages rituals between humans and plants, evoking an imaginary of futures woven from ecological, affective, and collective values, created together with the inhabitants of each city where it takes place. In Coimbra, Marina Guzzo carried out the eighth experience of this project and reinvented herself in dialogue with the garden, its cycles, textures, and living stories. Drawing from a vast vegetal repertoire, participants adorned themselves with leaves, flowers, branches, and fruits, creating hybrid, poetic, and unstable figures. With costume contributions from Lia Damasceno, these composed and enchanted creatures emerge as gestures of care and shared presence.

This exhibition is an invitation to extend that vegetal time: the time to merge with and be with the world.

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Credits

Creation and direction: Marina Guzzo
Costume: Lia Damasceno
Photography: Carlota Lagido
Video images: Marta Blanco
Video editing and sound effects: Marina Guzzo
Video music: Chopin
Featuring: Alexis Fernandez, Ana Monteiro, Ana Maria Machado, Bárbara Cordeiro, Beatriz Coelho, Catarina Silva, Celeste Quintela, Clara Trigo, Claire Hurley, Iria Proença, Luísa Rosmaninho, Luísa Velasco, Marieleen Bruggeman, Mariana Riquito, Priscila Dias, Sara Oportus, Susana Gonçalves
Executive production: Corpo Rastreado
Research platform: Laboratório Corpo e Arte

This research is part of the postdoctoral project that Marina Guzzo is developing at the Affective Societies Research Centre of the Freie Universität Berlin, funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq – Brazil). Process: 201223/2024-4.

This exhibition is made possible thanks to the partnership with the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra.

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Mistura#8 was programmed within the collaboration between Linha de Fuga and Festival Arbola (Pamplona)

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Entrevista na CoffePaste: “A vontade de dançar com o mundo” - conversa com Marina Guzzo