jhafis & johanna

Beyond the question of the place of art, now limited by a compulsory confinement, a collective of artists -Jhafis Quintero, ex-convict and Johanna Barilier, diagnosed as borderline- presents a serie of five video performances entitled Poem. Those five audiovisual poems «  bajo la premisa de patologias compatibles » represent a  kind of rebel answer contrasting with the social imposture that forced us to live a correct and hygienic couple life; as if our quarantined lives were equivalent to the happy ending of a Disney movie; as if the material conditions in which we live were the perfect setting of the happy ending of a prince and princess romance.

This is how, according to the dramatic structure of the Shakespearean tragedy, Quintero and Barilier invite us to live the experience of a life project whose sense of permanence has no other value than of mutual and huge love…