(...) Life is fictitious, words have lost their reality. And yet this fictitious life is the only one we can bear. We're here like fish in an aquarium. And feeling that there is another life beside us, we go to the grave without noticing it (...).

Raul Brandão, Húmus

The figure of the “Fauno”, introduced into the universe of reality in order to explore the relationship between documented reality and fiction, comes from a tribute to “Gabiru”, a character by Raul Brandão. If, until now, my creations had a clear separation between the real and fictional worlds, I now intend to investigate the possibilities of crossing these two universes. The creation of a device that allows us to reflect on how “memory, from the point of view of the subject”, the record of what is lived, comprises a complex relationship between the present and the past, experience and memory, living and telling.

In rehearsing new possibilities for scenic and dramaturgical composition, I see both autobiography and performance as means of exploring and developing creative capacities in terms of the writing of the “I”, the representation of the subject. In the play between memory and effabulation, archive documents translate meanings that refer to “another” context, to an alternative reality, reinforcing the associative opportunities, the authorial gesture and the inventive character of autobiographical narratives.