“Canon of Love” looks at love both in a socio-political perspective as well as in a natural-physical way, thinking of love as the most revolutionary life force, present in all nature. It is an interdisciplinary project unfolding in a trio for two bodies and visual projections.

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How do we understand romantic heterosexual love? What are the images and the stereotypes that constructed our canonical idea of it? By using humor and absurdity, we address pop culture and the children’s stories we have grown up with, pointing light on the twisted patriarchal perspective that they stand for, thus giving a new feminist perspective both on the female and male characters of those narratives. 

On the other hand “Canon of Love” evokes a love that is not only anthropocentric, a love that is intuitive and mysterious, that is fundamentally part of nature like our bodies, that has the power to connect, to bring life and to change as much as a river does. 

The river is a verb that transports creative energy and that nourishes. As love does. 

Rivers can’t be domesticated and so can’t love. Rivers connect territories and countries, pass through borders, and so does love. Rivers are ways of communication and connection and so is love.

​The piece is for anyone who has experienced love, for all the women and all the men that feel lost into expectations of patriarchal gender based patterns, for everyone who decides for love.