Dance and highly plastic images are the tools we like to play with at Maduixa to show our way of seeing art: a means to change the world through beauty. We are encouraged to address an issue that concerns us, child labor that still continues in much of the world. But we want to show it from the world of fantasy and imagination, as an open door to hope, thanks to which the little ones resist the harshness of their living conditions.
In this piece, halfway between contemporary dance, audiovisual and plastic arts, there are two girls who every day are forced to work in extremely harsh conditions. They, however, manage to survive day after day with enormous power of resilience. Perhaps it is because their inner world, that imaginary universe that they share and where they take refuge, allows them to face suffering and injustice. Together they find a way to play. And in their games they reflect their dreams and desires: a home and a family. They tell us about it while inviting us to free our imagination, and especially our creativity.
With a title, Lú, which in Chinese means “path”, this montage introduces us to the magic and poetry of a plastic world based on points, lines and shapes, where the oriental inspiration comes from minimalism and also from the pointillist universe of the Japanese Yayoi Kusama.
