Finding hope in a dumpster fire

2024

Performance (30 min)

Documentation photos: Daniela Toma / Open Out

The world is a dumpster fire. The pain and suffering witnessed every day makes the world seem hopeless and unnecessarily cruel. In my marriage with artist Tine Adler, hopelessness takes centre stage in our everyday life: in dinner conversations, Instagram posts shared with each other, the last words whispered before falling asleep.

Finding hope in a dumpster fire is a performative presentation and conversation between Tine and myself, where we hope to end this unconstructive loop of despair and pessimism we have been trapped in for so long. It’s a dive into our different upbringings in Brazil and Denmark. How the communities, religions and folklore we grew up in shaped our ideas of what trust and hope embodies, and how these ideas reinforced a notion of non-belonging. From joining a campaign to canonise Brazil's first queer saint to searching for gender fluidity in Norse Mythology, we share our different journeys to redefine the elements of the pasts to meet in a more hopeful shared present.

This work premiered at the Open Out Festival, Tromsø.