Sílvia Real
domicílios de Domicília
a partir de Casio Tone, 1997
As the song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David goes, “a house is not a home when there’s no one there.” The same can be said about a scenery without its characters.
This realization is especially emphasized when it comes to an exhibition showing the now-empty places inhabited by Ms. Domicília, the solitary character in the Casio Tone, Subtone and Tritone trilogy, created by Sérgio Pelágio and Sílvia Real.
Given a name itself evoking the notion of home, Domicília only lived in those enclosed places where she encountered a series of strange and disturbing situations. Now stripped of their uses, objects and spaces remain awaiting her imminent arrival.
But in the same way that any artifact or artistic object gains a second life once placed inside a museum, this exhibition is also aimed at celebrating Ms. Domicília by showing the scenarios and objects that accompanied her throughout her career, and which now, serving as memory aids, will guide us in revisiting those shows.
+info Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança
https://www.museusemonumentos.pt/pt/agenda/domicilios-de-d-domicilia-a-partir-de-casio-tone-1997
DOMICÍLIOS DE DOMICÍLIA TEAM
Conception and exhibition design
Carlos Bártolo
Artistic direction
Sílvia Real and Sérgio Pelágio
Texts
Carlos Bártolo, Susana Ribeiro Martins
Photographies
Real Pelágio Archive; Camila Grácio, Estelle Valente, Laura Haanpaa, Mel Fox, Mónica Lapa, Nuno Cortez Pinto, Pedro Cotovio, Raquel Fialho, Susana Neves
English translations
Pedro Pinto
Set up
Carlos Bártolo, Sérgio Pelágio, Élio Antunes, Laura Monteiro
Graphic production
Oficina de Museus
Production management and administration
Ana Carina Paulino
Executive production and publicising
Clara Motta
Communication
Susana Martins
Cultural mediation
Susana Martins and Laura Monteiro
Exhibition produced by Produções Real Pelágio in partnership with Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança
From February 2025 to June 2025