Finding hope in a dumpster fire

2025

Performance (30 min)

Documentation photos: Mila Elisabeth Larvoll

Second iteration of the performance Finding hope in a dumpster fire, made in collaboration between artist Tine Adler and myself.

Finding hope in a dumpster fire is a performative presentation and conversation between us, 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.

Performed at the Bergen Inkluderingssenter as part of Prøverommet in August 2025.