An avant-garde anatomical performance in which a figure opens up their own body in an attempt to understand it, involving the audience in a pulsating, militant gesture that arises from the heart.
Chantal is a multifaceted figure: a living anatomical doll, a lesbian Venus sprouting from songs of broken hearts and metaphysical poetry.
She dissects her own anatomy through a text that flows from one body to another, from one language to another, from one register to another.
Chantal is a textual, essayistic, and visceral choreography that radically redesigns the device of the anatomical theatre, exploring what a staging of the body’s interior might imagine beyond patriarchal norms and dominant regimes of attention.

Concept, text, choreography, songs, and performance: Veza Fernandez
Italian text and appearance: Sandra Cane
Costumes and set design: Sarah Sternat
Video art and installation: Mariya Vasileyva
Lighting: Christina Bergner
Dramaturgy and research: Claire Lefevre, Nerea González
Production: mollusca productions
Co-production: SPIT Festival, brut Vienna, Verein für expressive Gelegenheiten
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Vienna (MA7).

BIO
Veza Fernandez is a dance, voice, and performance artist based in Vienna. She weaves singing, writing, movement, and speech as embodied practices of research, imagination, and transformation. Her works are polyphonic convocations of voices and presences that seek to move and be moved.
Her training spans philology, pedagogy, theater, music, and contemporary dance, and her work is rooted both in underground scenes and more structured artistic institutions. She holds a Master’s degree in Choreography from the DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam.
Her work has been presented in international contexts such as brut Wien, Tanzquartier (Vienna), Sophiensaele (Berlin), Gessnerallee (Zurich), deSingel (Antwerp), and La Casa Encendida (Madrid).