Circus focus: “I am large, I contain multitudes,” Walt Whitman said. Indeed, we never fully coincide with ourselves. Always multiple. In a zany show, Vinka Delgado stages this endless multiplying of the self, which animates us, makes us fragile, and helps us grow.
“I am large, I contain multitudes,” the poet Walt Whitman said. He was right: we never fully coincide with ourselves. Always multiple, always elsewhere, always larger. Covered in masks and countless in number — that is what we are. Scattered like puzzle pieces; recomposed; each time enlarged by a few new fragments. Incapable of confining ourselves to the One. Always venturing beyond our own borders. Always ready to take cuttings from ourselves, to replant ourselves. To bud. To grow a branch here, a branch there. Each of us is an unstable star, an expanding universe. In a zany show with surrealist touches, Vinka Delgado stages this constant multiplying. Her body, subjected to ceaseless metamorphoses, becomes the fascinating revealer of this endless fragmentation, which animates us, makes us fragile, and helps us grow.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Kiko Lozano