Calixto Neto: IL FAUX

In the frame of Moving in November

IL FAUX by Calixto Neto draws inspiration from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book Between the World and Me, in which Coates writes a letter to his 15-year-old son to warn him of the dangers the world holds for his Black body growing up in North America. This everyday reality and threat raises a question: Which bodies are perpetually on the verge of being lost? IL FAUX delves into the transmission of fear and the conditioning of the body in the language of survival, and examinates the potential subversion of the societal roles assigned to Black bodies. The performance navigates through dissociative practices such as manipulation, dispossession and fragmentation, and it uses ventriloquism as an element in the dichotomy between the domination of a body and the exposure of its emptiness. Picture©BeniaminBoar

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