Dobra – inflexões de um plano sobre um corpo (Fold – inflections of a plane on a body [which in Portuguese can also read as inflections of a plan for a body]) is a video installation composed of 4 projections and a sound piece. It draws on the classic object-body relationship, the interconnections between sculpture and performance, where touch and feeling are the key words to de/construct the dialogue between the two artistic areas, the encounter between the cold, hard, breakable object of sculpture and the warm, soft, flexible human body. The plaster forms of Mariana Ramos, created to be touched, worn, hung, transported, or confused with a body which is not a body but a sculpture instead, provoke the movement of 4 dancers, Sílvia Real, Valentina Parravicini, Pedro Ramos and Sandra Rosado, creating 4 narratives that confront each other through the projected image and are unified by Sérgio Pelágio’s sound.

Mariana Ramos is a visual artist and art educator. She graduated in Sculpture from FBAUL and Visual Arts from Maumaus school and has exhibited regularly since 1999. She has collaborated with Real Pelágio since 2013 and with the association Ordem do Ó since 2014. In 2020-21, Mariana received funding from the Portuguese Ministry of Culure’s DGArtes for Extremophilarum, created in collaboration with Catarina Nunes and presented in various locations in Portugal since. In 2023, Mariana received a DGArtes grant for the creation of Dobra – inflections of a plane on a body.