She made things appear...
Zoe Kreye and Guadalupe Martinez | BOOMBOX | Vancouver, 2025
Kreye and Martinez come together for this collaborative performance to explore a new work that draws from theatrical aesthetics. Through an immersive installation they embody imagery emerging from their dreams, and visions from their somatic explorations.
She made items appear - like visions, magic before my real eyes. Her hands caress, her daughter’s head, softly, gently, deeply brushing her hair. A touch so loving, so real, so true, that it travels to the centre of both their beings. My body expands. I feel myself changing and I am scared a human fear. This is an acceptance of all the stories that proceeded them, and that are still to come. Like true knowing, or a protector of all beings.
Zoe Kreye and Guadalupe Martinez are interdisciplinary artists and performance collaborators. Their work takes form through objects, drawing, writing, movement, and friendship using the medium of performance art as the realm through which their imagery, sensations, and concepts are brought to life, ritualized and integrated as part of their healing and spiritual processes. Both Kreye and Martinez live in Vancouver and show their work across Canada and internationally.
Photo Credit: Luciana Freire D'Anunciação
Kreye and Martinez come together for this collaborative performance to explore a new work that draws from theatrical aesthetics. Through an immersive installation they embody imagery emerging from their dreams, and visions from their somatic explorations.
She made items appear - like visions, magic before my real eyes. Her hands caress, her daughter’s head, softly, gently, deeply brushing her hair. A touch so loving, so real, so true, that it travels to the centre of both their beings. My body expands. I feel myself changing and I am scared a human fear. This is an acceptance of all the stories that proceeded them, and that are still to come. Like true knowing, or a protector of all beings.
Zoe Kreye and Guadalupe Martinez are interdisciplinary artists and performance collaborators. Their work takes form through objects, drawing, writing, movement, and friendship using the medium of performance art as the realm through which their imagery, sensations, and concepts are brought to life, ritualized and integrated as part of their healing and spiritual processes. Both Kreye and Martinez live in Vancouver and show their work across Canada and internationally.
Photo Credit: Luciana Freire D'Anunciação
There is a mountain,
a large, dark, heavy, voluptuous mountain.
Purple, velvet, solid, soft, rooted mountain. Loving, encompassing, fertile, ominous, sensual, dangerous, powerful mountain.
She, is the soul of my spirit.
She, is the core of my thoughts. She, is the lava of my blood.
She, is the knowing of my heart.
She is fatherless and motherless and she is the world. The all and nothing. Where all things are born and die. Where death is real, where life is everything.
She holds the truth, she protects it and sustains it,
she is the thunder and the river, she is the shadow and the sun.
She is the ever-changing constant, where all things grow, where all things demise.
She holds the trees, the water, the fire and the dirt. She loves the air, the stars, the moon and the sun. She is the sky, she is the Earth.
Beloved mountain, beloved friend, she is the feminine, she is myself .
~ ~ ~ > <~ ~ ~ ~
She is the forgiven and the forgotten, she is the gained and the lost,
she is the cycles of wisdom,
the tragedy, and the hope.
She knows of suffering, of fear, and loss,
she knows of cowardice, of pettiness, of evil, and more…
She has crumbled, and ached,
never being destroyed,
She is the source of life,
She is an image of God.
She holds no guilt nor merit,
No wanting to choose,
She feels all the senses deeply and lets her skin take them all
She is, she is, she is Love
Always loving me
She is...
Guadalupe Martinez, March 2025