A Pedra, a Mágoa is based on the observation of abandoned quarries in Portugal, analysing the acceleration of the decomposition of spaces into images and comparing them to the social idea of the concept of Family. Positioning himself on the border between the public and the private, the choreographer seeks a speed that leads the viewer to a mythological space of welcome and disruption, where contemplation is offered through thousands of frames per second.

- a Faun for my parents -

"I observed my country from above. There, my parents multiplied between towns and villages, building families that weren't mine. Big families and small families, single families or in groups, with and without houses. Tables full and pockets completely empty, families with quiet mouths and images that are only familiar on the outside. Looking down, I also saw open wounds in the earth, endless excavations, some cared for and others abandoned, some full of water and others with scarce throats, inspected by iron animals that we decided to call cranes so that the heavy work wouldn't be confused with animal exploitation (my father and mother have always been working animals). The families of the people and the families of the holes have become too many to keep my vision clear, I've lost my parents and their new families (who are perhaps mine or else those parents never belonged to me). I realise that maybe I'm nowhere, that everything is a huge hole in the ground. There is no more country, no more parents, no more family - everything is everything and everything brings the principle of nothingness: to start digging again from the inside."