Musa paradisiaca’s work has always been collaborative. Bringing together persons linked by intellectual affinities, their temporary collaborations undertake a variety of forms. At the Quetzal Art Centre, they now present Teatro Máximo: a physical and mental space that places, for the first time, this pensive family in a real-time relationship, a direct dialogue with the objects produced by Musa paradisiaca. If the theatrical element was already evident in the practice of these artists, in this piece the universe of theatricality assumes a different form. ‘Máximo’ refers to the idea of a space of possibilities, of the great possibility — thought of as a virtual potentiality — of uniting all the practice of this duo: all they have done and all they will ever do.

Filipa Oliveira