Helio Eudoro Rodriguez Junior

O Manto

Performance O Manto by Helio Eudoro. March 1, 2022. HOME(LAND)- Terra Firma - ArtworxTO Hub WEST | Cloverdale Common.As an iteration of his previous performative works, Eudoro constructs once again the Manto. This time by using non-gender clothes he explores bias and cultural segmentation and suppression towards sex, gender and ultimately the body. To un-genderfy is a way of re-learning how we came to identify ourselves through the body and how repressive social and cultural foundations incite the behavioural need to be concealed or disguised and encourage a way of thinking in exile.

“The Manto continues to be a symbolic and active component in his research for effacement structures and cultural inclusion. As mechanism of power, it protects and reveal, activates the body and allows individuals and their identities to be free.”