M HKA Ensembles

Performance, Dimensions variable.

Collection: Courtesy of the artist.

In the space there is a chair with a large piece of folded paper. A performer arrives, takes the folded paper, and proceeds to unfold it, carefully, as it is fragile. The folded paper is divided into three parts and the performer must make them match carefully, finally displaying a very big sign extended on the floor where one can read: ‘Révolution, tiens ta promesse!’ (Revolution, fulfil your promise!). Once the poster is perfectly unfolded and readable on the floor, the performer sits on the chair or walks around the poster, ‘guarding’ it, keeping it safe, like a sentinel.

The sentence ‘Revolution, fulfil, your promise!’ is completed with the sentence “Emancipate women” and it was shown by feminist activist Margarita Robles de Mendoza in 1936 at the Plaza del Zócalo, Mexico City.

Performed for the first time in the exhibition Tout dans le cabinet mental, Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine (2022)