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This performance stems from a person I drew as a memento of a concert. I called it Guintche and, meanwhile, it grew, gained a life of its own, gained autonomy and rebelled. Guintche is a word in the Cape Verdean Creole language: it is the name of a bird, the name of a prostitute, but it can also refer to an attitude, that of someone who jumps from one event to the next, lacking coherence in his/her choices. Through its counterintuitive structure, Guintche responds to wax sculpture - it melts, solidifies, changes its shape... Yet, it always maintains the same nature, that is, it remains made of the same wax. - Marlene Monteiro Freitas