Portugal

"Vampires in Space" resorts to expectations on the figure of “vampires” to address issues of gender identity, nonnuclear families, reproduction, and the role of mental health today. It presents a narrative installation, including film, poetry, and exhibition design, about the melancholic reality of a trip to a distant exoplanet – after all, in space it’s always night and, in their immortality, vampires are perfect to deal with the incommensurability of spatial distances. This longevity allows for a science fictional retrospective exercise anchored in Pedro Neves Marques’s own trans, nonbinary experience, as well as a political critique of an history of control over bodies and desire.