Photo: © Sanne Peper
While Taking Shape is a month-long performance by dancer and choreographer Amparo González Sola at Marres.
The performance takes place during the dismantling of the exhibition Vultures & Fireflies by Mexican artist Alejandro Galván. Visitors encounter the performers in a house where remnants of the exhibition are still visible, alongside traces of its deconstruction and empty spaces.
Playing with this context and the themes of the exhibition, González Sola asks: How close does something need to happen before we feel a connection or a sense of responsibility? The performance emerges from the growing sense of detachment in a world where terrible events are constantly projected onto our retinas through the media—an endless stream of images, moving at high speed and stripped of context, seemingly freezing our ability to feel.
By focusing on small gestures, the work invites us to reconsider the dynamics of gaze, distance, and proximity as we reflect on what it means to bear witness. At the end of each day, the performers retreat into a designated space, where they invite visitors for an intimate presentation.
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Amparo González Sola
While Taking Shape
Date:
10 Sep—5 Oct 2025
During While Taking Shape, Marres is open from Wednesday to Sunday.
Time:
Continuous performance between 12—5PM
On Friday nights, Marres is open until 8PM. On these Friday nights and at different times during the week, González Sola gives workshops in which visitors are invited to engage with the research.
Location:
Marres, House for Contemporary Culture
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Photo: © Sanne Peper
I know it’s happening, but who is it happening to?
— Kae Tempest (Pictures on a Screen)
Amparo González Sola
Amparo González Sola’s (1984, Mendoza, Argentina) (she/her) work spans dance, choreography, and participative projects, and is distinctly influenced by feminist activism and her experience of migration. Her earlier works include The Conspiracy of Forms (2023) and If every rock is a hole (2022), presented at the SPRING Performing Arts Festival, and the participative project Exploring Reciprocity (2019-2023). She is an associate artist with Dansateliers (2025-2028).
Credits
Concept and direction: Amparo González Sola
Performance and research: Leandro de Souza and Amparo González Sola
Sound: Nahuel Cano
Light: Vinny Jones
Dramaturgical advice: Bek Berger
Production: Dansateliers
Coproduction: Dansateliers, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Frascati Producties.
Support: BAU AIR (NL), Greenhouse (NL), Rooms Performance Festival (NL), workspacebrussels (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (PT).
Performance of gestures
The diptych on ‘performance of gestures’ by Amparo Gonzalez Sola and Ingrid Berger Myhre continues Marres’ long-standing tradition of exploring the language of the body. The Floor is Lava (2019) by artists Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen, and Museum Motus Mori (2019) by choreographer Katja Heitmann, were also dedicated to this theme.
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Partners / thanks to
Dansateliers, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Frascati Producties, BAU AIR (NL), Greenhouse (NL), Rooms Performance Festival (NL), workspacebrussels (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (PT)
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.
