“When I came back this time, I was nothing but loose skin. I’d left my bones and organs in the celestial roots above and my blood pumped itself alive outside my body, connecting only through a long vein to the space in my back where my shoulder blades once were. As I made my way home, I tried to keep a smile on my face, but I had no cheek bones or teeth to hold it together.”
Excerpt of "Wild Rose" in Alopecoid: Cunning Rebellion (2025)
PedroAfoxso
PedroAfoxso (Lisbon, 2002), is a writer, movement and theater maker based in The Netherlands. In his catalogue-formatted work; dance, text, video and spoken word, immerse the audience in a parallel world inspired by queer and grotesque imagery. His hope-seeking research explores society’s permeability to change through an ambush where empathy contrasts with brutal, honest humanity, resulting in a checkmate, that forces the system to either revolutionize or admit defeat.
Pedro's pieces: Is it wrong not to be special, 4,9/10, MUST SWEAT and Infinitely Near Point inspired his Written Movement artistic practice from where his first trilogy solo work comprised of a stage performance, an album and a book, ALOPECOID was born in 2026. His work keeps developing in Amsterdam and The Netherlands at MimeFabriek, Stichting Triplets & ZIDTheater.
Written Movement
Pedro's work and research carries out via movement, words and video and is based on the grotesque imagery and body as a place where all human beings reside. It plays with the border between reality and fiction, between the melancholy and boredom of daily life and the utopic dream world of passion and equality. It is, on its own, a storytelling satire of injustice designed to incite an inner revolution on the viewer and bring them towards compassion and gentleness.
His research plays out like a chess game where a "check-mate" effect is desired as a means to unmask social-political conflicts. He sees the queer body as a rule-breaker, the only one capable of inciting the king to step away from the status quo and move farther than one square away.
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