De Filigrana Se Faz A Espuma Do Mar
Collaborative Research with Beatriz Catarino, Beatriz Felicio, Sara Lafond e Vera da Costa.
DE FILIGRANA SE FAZ A ESPUMA DO MAR is an ongoing collective research project exploring how knowledge is created, preserved, and shared through embodied and ritual practices.
Rooted in decolonial thought—including the work of Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, and Diana Taylor’s concept of the repertoire.
The project interrogates Portugal’s colonial legacy while dreaming new ways of relating to land, ancestry, and community.
The ocean becomes a symbolic meeting ground: a space between histories, bodies, and spirits. Together with a group of four women artists, the work unfolds through collective rituals, storytelling, elemental embodiment, and symbolic gestures. What is shared is not a finished product but a constellation of experiments, reflections, and poetic transmissions.
When we come together
each one with an offering
a meditation,
an intuitive movement invitation,
phonetic explorations,
a dance with water.
Here the body becomes both an archive and an oracle, a living vessel for speculative memory and ancestral resonance.
Question
remembering and or reinvention,
memory and or imagination.
Within individual and collective identity.
Where does the collective memory manifest around us?
Does the body remember beyond the minds comprehension?
Is intuition and embodied knowing the body remembering?
Based between Netherlands and Portugal
Contact
email - veramachadodacosta@gmail.com
instagram - Vera da Costa
Contact
email - veramachadodacosta@gmail.com
instagram - Vera da Costa