PRESS

"Provocation, voyeurism, manipulation of the gaze, a performance closely related to the relationship with the spectator: Paulo Guerreiro works on notions which conjure up seduction – but also instrumentalisation – in order to offer the game peeping me, creation based on the form of an inhabited installation, with which everyone can develop the relationship they want. The stage design by Marion Abeille encourages this type of interaction: movement appears with the presence of spectators, who are invited to stay and be themselves, spying, touching and exposing themselves. 

Guerreiro refers to a «perverted sensorial relationship»: shared intimacies, manipulated senses, bodies and gazes in fetishistic commutation."

Mónica Guerreiro in Agenda LX (09/2005).

"glOry hOles

peeping me calls for me and requests an active involvement on the part of the spectator. As the person both touched and touching, seeing and visible, observing and observed, the spectator is ensnared in a complex system while enticed to weave threads with the performer, Paulo Guerreiro.

Experiencing this installation-performance cannot leave you indifferent. It gives rise to various contradictory feelings: disgust, rejection, pleasure, amazement... (...) HOListic..."

Elodie Guida in Ventilo (02/05/07)

"Fraise déboire

(...) I thrust my hands into the unknown, as if I helped deliver the child (again). I am scared, but I let myself go. It is beautiful, pleasant, touching, erotic, rough, smooth. It all comes in naturally. My hands are dancing. I live again... like a second birth. I forget everything. And suddenly: the vacuum. I cannot feel anything any more. Almost abandoned. (...) The performance lay there, in the creation of this tie, with an unknown artist, so close, so far. Ten minutes of brotherhood, during which art is at the heart of our intimacy. Ten minutes of communication that no social conversation will ever replace. Ten minutes during which our hands wove with humility this tie that some will soon want to deprive us of.

Paulo Guerreiro, come back! We will need your boldness to rub on our hands the soothing fluid leading to our dark thoughts."

Pascal Bély in Le Tadorne (01/05/07)

"This is a peep show

(...) Playful and sexy (especially in its epicurean epilogue, with a return to red colours), the artistic proposal gives rise to a flow of mixed feelings, half way between sensuality and perversion, which challenges all the senses - from sight, touch, hearing, to smell and taste - obstructing them in turn, and calls for an innocence which could have been lost in the artistic commercial media oriented flow of soft porn and «porno chic»... Innocence, and even virginity, since you cannot experience peeping me again with quite the same vision of the «object»."

Denis Bonneville in La Marseillaise (22/04/07)