Uma Confissão Se Quiseres revisits the texts that integrate the show ‘Posso saltar do meio da escuridão e morder’, premiered in 2018.

What lives beneath the surface of subjection? Can the absence of freedom make a soul die? Insubmission appears as the only possibility of survival for Rose - a girl who finds herself as a woman and as black woman in the context of the watertight places of slavery. The show constructs images to present a traumatic past. Rose re-stages the trauma in a continuous and obstinate mode, sometimes embodying it, sometimes as a spectator of herself, her discourse is fragmentary, timeless and escapes morality.

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Rogério de Carvalho

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´It is the materialization of the most intimate traumatic fantasies; this explains the enigma of the strange gaps in her memory. What she writes is the phantasmatic image she has of him. It is part of Inner Space (from you to you). Aren't the facts and feelings she narrates her own invention? Did they exist? Is it the Thing? Isn't it an Emptiness? We don't see the actions, we only hear them. Is the process of Slavery/Thing, the development of its history, its realization? In the end, she returns to where she started, taking on the consciousness of what it is to be black. The tragic position is that she becomes aware of all substantial identity, that she is nothing in herself, since she only thinks she exists by dreaming of the Other. The immensity is in her, both in her voice and in her speech.´