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Anastasia Lukovnikova is a Russian director. Mariano Marovatto is a Brazilian writer and musician. Both live and work in Lisbon.
Idea for the residency:
Anastasia and Mariano will spend a week in Paris because they “bought” the tourist package “Live the Parisian life like a Parisian,” living the life of the artist couple Curtis Putralk and Dado Amaral, two typical “Parisians.”
“We will take photos, magazine-style paparazzi shots. I will dress like Curtis, and Anastasia like Dado. A photo album: by the Seine, walking with our teenage daughter along the Canal Saint-Martin, buying flowers at the Place des Vosges, at the museum, at the bistro. In short, everything that is typical of Parisian life, from the tourists’ point of view. The idea is, of course, to question the figure of the tourist, what it means to be a foreigner, to be Parisian, to be an immigrant, to be something else… Because, logically, I am not Curtis, and Anastasia is not Dado, Dado and Curtis are not Parisians, and Paris is not Paris!”
Mariano Marovatto
“A Small Parisian Day”