“Double” (1982) by Constança Capdeville: the work where the ego finds itself in a universe other than itself

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Helena Maria da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Santana, Maria do Rosário da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i17.27109

Constança Capdeville (1937-1992) pursued her creative activity in various fields. The unbroken alliance between music and scenic art appears in her work, linked to musical theater. The sound, the sound space and the space of the multimedia, theatrical and plastic arts deserve, on their part, a detailed attention. They are identically in a close relationship with the body and a performative gesture inherent in the creation / interpretation of the work. With a very strong multidisciplinary component and a pronounced desire for open forms, her work also reflects the influence of several authors, namely Cage, Schwitters, Berio or Kagel; but also, the work of Lorca, Joyce, Cendrars, Poe or Elliot. In this work, we also can see the influence of Picasso or Dalí. From a technical point of view, the author uses collage, indicating those influences. She also uses juxtaposition and intertextuality. According to the author, her work still contains an incessant mystique view, as well as a dialectic language with the invisible. In this sense, and through Double (1982), we want to show how the author reflects on the Narcis- sus Myth, the Egotism and the Alienation that comes from it, through the dialogue that she establishes with herself in a total disagreement with others. Through the analysis of this work, we will understand how an interpretation can reveal the imagistic contents proposed by the author revealing the self and the other, in a confrontation between dissimilar elements in an intense and revealing counterpoint.