“A train journey crosses the African continent, but the passengers are not just people: they are stolen stories, artifacts torn from their lands and confined in European museum showcases. Each stop reveals sounds that echo from absence, each sound represents the voice of taken statues, whispers of silenced masks. The audience is invited to embark on a reflection on Afro-diasporic immigration, displaced bodies and statues imprisoned by a colonial past. A journey that challenges the boundaries of time and space, revealing the weight of history at every stop. The performers are the guides on this journey. Their interaction with the Temporal Interval installation symbolically serves as a manifestation of the stolen artifacts, of the bodies that have been forced out of their territories.

Poka Terra. Poka Terra. Tchu Tchu.”

A multidisciplinary artist, Isabél Zuaa was born in Lisbon and has origins in Guinea-Bissau and Angola. Her artistic research focuses on dramaturgies in which black people are the protagonists and hosts of their own narratives and on mapping invisibilized biographies. Mauro Hermínio is a Portuguese actor of Mozambican origin whose career spans theater, film and television, combined with a strong activism for black representation.

“Pouca Terra” is part of the program of activations for the installation ‘Intervalo Temporal’, in the exhibition Profundidade de Campo, by Mónica de Miranda.

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)