Migro, logo existo – Interstícios Do Não-ser

In Migro, logo existo: Interstícios do Não-Ser [I migrate, therefore I exist: interstices of non-being], Marinho Pina questions the struggle for private property – physical, cultural, ideological and/or identity – that makes us forget to look at the ‘interstices of non-being’, the non-place where universes of possibilities and opportunities reside to break down barriers, whether visible or invisible, and reinvent what it means to be human.

Born in Sonaco, Guinea-Bissau, Marinho de Pina is a storyteller who uses different formats: music, film, writing, poetry, dance, performance and architecture. As a performer, he has worked in various spaces throughout Portugal and beyond. Since 2017, he has been working with the Mediateca Abotcha project (Guinea-Bissau), in a programme of cultural creation of dreams and utopias with local communities, which aims to horizontalise knowledge. Recently, the film Ressonância em Espiral (Resonance in a Spiral), which he made in collaboration with Filipa César, was shown at the Berlinale in Berlin, DocFortnight MoMA in New York and Cinema du Réel – Centre Pompidou in Paris, where it was awarded the Libraries Prize sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture.

This performance forms part of the e activations programme of the piece Timelapse, which is featured in Mónica de Miranda‘s exhibition Depth of Field.

Photographs by Renato Cruz Santos