Rita Borralho Silva
Dirty Art Department
Biography
Rita Borralho Silva (b.2000, Lisbon) is an Amsterdam-based performance artist, exploring the tension between tradition and transformation. Raised in post-revolutionary Portugal, her work channels political urgency with the body as resistance. An amateur dancer who loves chanting and storytelling, Rita brings an inherently personal and embodied urgency to her practice: “I am Body. Poetic, political and always, feminist.”
Steel wheels, still driving. Still here, still fighting.
"Steel wheels, still driving. Still here, still fighting" is a call for action. Bodies bounded unbound. They hurt so much. Dance. The. Pain. Away. This work is the residue of the artist's experiences of the anti-fascist and pro-Palestina protests in Amsterdam over the last year, bringing together dance, poetry, video, textile and sound, it centers the body in the fight against oppression, police violence and right-wing extremism.