left-hand shoe on a hunch, and cream
2024

Performance / sound

Maison de l’Amérique Latine

Paris, France

As part of Mira Art Fair

Curated by Noelia Portela

This interdisciplinary piece explores the lavishness and absurdity of royal life in Western Europe during the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Particularly the extravagant kings and queens of the Age of Absolutism.

Presented in the beautiful garden of la Maison de L’Amérique Latine, I performed a character that fuses archetypes of monarchs and jesters; using their unmistakable idiosyncrasies to narrate a one-man-show in various acts of theatrical imagery and melodramatic appeal.

I drew inspiration from Anne, Queen of Great Britain (notably Olivia Coleman’s portrayal in Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite) and Louis XIV. Emphasizing the paradox of their fortune with their miserable disease-ridden fates.

left-hand shoe illustrates a subject that is associated with the past. Yet feels very relevant in today’s climate of unbalanced wealth and power. As a Latin-American person with indigenous and Western-European roots, I appropriated the clichés affiliated with these periods and saturated them into a hyper-queer modern dialogue.

Costume design: Yulong Song.

Music production and composition: Gatspar.

Photo credit: Raphaël Massart and Thomas Gallardo.