‘Dressing as the Sun’ is a participatory project for public spaces inspired by Ocaña’s imagery and his iconic sun costume. The project reimagines the dressed body as a living image and as a gesture of collective celebration.
The artist begins with a white tunic that is transformed through the participation of local residents. Each person chooses a satin ribbon, writes a wish, a memory or a longing on it, and attaches it to the costume, turning it into a shared work of art. In return, they receive another ribbon from the artist bearing a verse or a poetic phrase, which he sings out loud at that very moment.
As the performance unfolds, the costume fills with colour, words and the presence of participants until it becomes an expanding sun: a living archive of collectively constructed voices and memories. The piece connects with the freedom, exuberance and poetic power of the body in public space, in dialogue with Ocaña’s legacy and with contemporary performance practices.
As part of the ‘Arte en las Plazas de Asturias’ programme, the dress continues to grow from town to town, accumulating wishes and fragments of memory until it becomes a sun created by many people.
This performance can be enjoyed on 25, 26 and 27 September in the various locations featured in the ‘Arte en las Plazas’ programme:
- CANDÁS – Friday 25 September, from 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm
- PRAVIA – Saturday 26 September, from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm
- CANGAS DE ONÍS – Sunday 27 September, from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm
About the artist
Mocholi (Valencia, 2001) is a transdisciplinary artist, performer and poet whose practice lies at the intersection of the performing arts, visual arts and research into personal archives and memory. His work constructs images of great physical and symbolic power, in which the body appears as a site of transformation, heritage and emotional tension.
Trained in Fine Arts, opera singing and theatre, he has developed his own unique language in which action, words, performance and ritual coexist. He has collaborated with institutions such as the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge and 95 Art Gallery.
His career also extends into the literary sphere, with the poetry collection Estimología, and into stage and audiovisual direction, where his experimental pieces and his work as director for the artist Bajo Cero X are particularly noteworthy.
