Yinka Esi Graves & Miguel Ángel Rosales The Door Seville (Spain), London (UK)

Filmed in Porto’s Municipal Park, the site of the 1934 Colonial Exhibition, The Door responds to a place shaped by the legacies of empire and representation. Through movement and film, Yinka Esi Graves and Miguel Ángel Rosales create an encounter with a history that is often overlooked, exploring what remains visible, concealed and unresolved within the contemporary landscape.

Part of The Disappearing Act: a series of site-responsive interventions, the films emerge from Graves’ exploration of places shaped by colonial discourse. Each one responds to landscapes that hold traces of brutal displacement and erasure, yet often bear few visible signs of the histories they contain.

Through movement, Graves investigates questions of presence, absence and visibility, developing a distinctive choreographic language in dialogue with each site. Rosales’ camera captures these encounters, creating intimate and evocative works that bring body, memory and place into conversation.

Presented together, each film reflects a unique meeting between performer and landscape, revealing how histories can linger within spaces, and how dance can become a way of witnessing, remembering and reimagining what has been obscured.