ser/estar

In this performance, mother and daughter stand together beneath a life-sized print of an Araucaria tree. Side by side, they hum a shared song, a sound woven with memory and inheritance. As their voices mingle, the fabric is slowly lowered, unfurled across the floor, revealing the full scale of the tree.

Native to southern Brazil, the Araucaria is a tree of deep time: ancient, enduring, and now endangered. Once blanketing entire regions, its forests have been devastated by logging and land clearance, leaving only fragments behind. In the act of unveiling the tree, the performers honor its memory and presence—evoking loss, reverence, and resistance.

The connection between the performers mirrors the connection to the tree itself—intimate, generational, rooted. 

This is a performance of remembering: the tree as witness, as ancestor, as echo. It stands for what has been lost—and for what might still be saved.