ISLAND OF LOVE

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Sept 2013

 

Island of Love is an urban performance inspired by “The Bathers” by Pierre Auguste Renoir.

 

As part of the renowned festival Poa Em Cena, 25 performers come together moving in the interplay of  nudity and the urban to bring attention to the central canal “Arroio Dilúvio”. This canal was in the past a public leisure area fostering conviviality and community.

 

However it was left neglected by right wing parties in power and it is now surrounded by rubbish and pollution.