Helio Eudoro Rodriguez Junior

O Manto de Invisibilidade 3

In O Manto de Invisibilidade 3, Eudoro explore notions of erasure and defacement perpetrated by multiple socio-cultural systems. He deconstructs clothes donated by his peers and sewed into a wearable experiential garment, in a dialogue with the Brazilian queer neo concrete artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) and his Parangolés.

“Through a performative gesture, Eudoro wears the Manto as a Parangolé and dance. In a light mirrored swayed motion, the performance refers to an emotional isolation but at the same time creates a safe space. It protects and liberate identities, bodies and souls from stereotypes, judgments and prejudices in a mirrored swayed experience for us to contemplate and reflect on. The cape has power of invisibility which has powers to un-genderify, un-sexualizing, un-bodying”