Douglas Melo

Drawing great inspiration from the work of Josué de Castro, Fome de Lama [Mud Hunger] seeks to explore the internal and external balance of Man driven by his hunger. A constant struggle for existence like a famished animal whose instincts control the psyche. Enslaved, Man’s hand looks for life, sinking in the mud. He is absorbed by it and gets stuck in his own cycle of misery and despair, an entanglement of roots from Nature and society that make up the mangrove. Surrounded and suspended in the ropes, the starving Man perishes. — Douglas Melo


DOUGLAS MELO (1991) was born in Recife, Brazil. He started his artistic career with urban dances, namely breaking, having competed professionally for several years. The circus provided him with a new way of researching, exploring and executing through movement. In 2016 he attended the professional course at INAC – National Institute of Circus Arts, and in 2019 he completed the Advanced Training in Performance and Choreographic Creation at Companhia Instável. He has ever since developed a technical and artistic work that combines acrobatics, dance and tightrope.

TANIA CUNHA (1993)—aka misslazyfatcat (2012)—was born in Geneva, Switzerland. She has a degree in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts (Porto, 2015), where she also completed a master’s degree in Image Design (2017). She is an illustrator, street sticker artist and 2D and 3D animator. Fascinated with astronomy since she was a child, she’s currently applying her artistic training in the service of promoting scientific knowledge by working at the Porto Planetarium – Living Science Centre (2019). Always eager for new creative experiences, she is now involved in the performance world.