Visual artist Ana Pérez Quiroga has made her debut film and a complementary performance that extends our relationship with said film. Between personal stories and collective memory, “De qué casa eres?” draws on the life of Angelita Perez — one of almost 3,000 Spanish children exiled to the Soviet Union during the Spanish Civil War — to outline a map of emotion, distance and survival. From the Russian internment camps, where she lived between the ages of 4 and 24, to the songs and stories she shares with the director, her daughter, the film is an act of passing down between the generations, where to remember is also to reinterpret.

Associated with the screening of the film at the Fernando Lopes Cinema of Universidade Lusófona, as part of the Cineclube program and the “Great Artists on Campus” cycle, the performance created for BoCA 2025, “De qué casa eres? – performance #1”, extends this cartography of memory onto the stage. A gaming table, a lamp, a bench: elements that evoke the intimacy of home and the space of play. Wearing the blue coverall that runs through the film, the artist displaces these symbols into a territory between the lived and the imagined, between homeland and country of exile, between presence and absence.

Here, the action on stage not only evokes memories: it activates new possibilities of relating between mother and daughter, individual and history, turning the stage into a space of listening and invention.