Sabine Macher, Margarida Bettencourt and I are women artists, born in 1955 in Germany, 1962 in South Africa and 1988 in Portugal. Continuing a common history, this piece is based on the intergenerational encounter as a place for mutual learning and is nourished by the will to weave relationships between a rebelliousness with a feminine affiliation and trembling. In this correlation, I do not see trembling as fear or hesitation, nor rebelliousness as confrontation, but as potentials to shake certainties and systems. I am interested in the exercise of a rebelliousness that acts at the level of perception and sets in motion another functioning and understanding of that which surrounds me.
Resorting to Ursula K. Le Guin’s speculative writing, relevant as a way of reading the present that proposes a shuddering, a metaphorical and symbolic interval, we follow the hypothesis of considering fiction as a basket. We think of this piece as a container, a meeting point, where we coexist with other women – artists, fictional characters, mythological and archetypal figures – who are also rebels and tremor-makers. Our story intertwines with theirs. Here “Por motivo de Força Maior” (“Due to Force Majeure”) abandons its legal charge, to act as a poetic motor, unleashing forces that move between the inevitable, the untamable and the necessary. – Teresa Silva
