In Lost Ride, the figures created by Sílvia Real confront the physical and psychic space that constrains them. That space is an artificial and constructed one, reinforcing the idea of ​​fabrication. This is a world where a supposed "natural order of things" is no longer possible. The organic and the inorganic hybridize, devour each other, swallow each other. Lost Ride dwells in the tension, the illusion of dichotomies, and offers the possibility of cannibalism. This show’s proposal implies the unveiling of contradictory structures and a close look into psychic lives. As well as into their own absence and conditions of possibility.

The figurations on stage translate ways of being which are progressively incompatible and precarious in their enunciation. As if the figurations’ definition necessarily implied the incorporation of the very context that makes the definition possible. More than a way of being, it is about inhabiting.

This inhabiting translates into disharmony, implying the disparity and paradox between feeling and expressing. The successive scenes reveal different layers, both emotional and physical, that are concealed and uncovered. The ruptures, the outburst, the breaking of surfaces reinforce the end’s anguish. Or does anguish inhabit us from the very beginning? Even more so, are we the anguish?

João Manuel de Oliveira *

*text included in the show's brochure, Culturgest 2011