It’s a point of view, they say. Of thoughts, positions, actions. And of bodies, too. Spanish choreographer Núria Guíu has created a solo performance, with pre-premiere at One Dance Festival 2025, that examines the act of looking, the power of perspective. What do we truly see when our eyes scan a body on stage? Limbs, hair, form. Or the constructs already embedded in our consciousness. Сonstructs that draw us closer or push us away, shaping us into what the other expects, assumes, or prefers not to acknowledge.

For seconds or minutes, the first glance becomes the judge. A distorted mirror. The gaze acts as a filter - social, cultural, political, digital, mythological. No wonder the desire emerges to please it, to be liked by it, to present ourselves “correctly” in real or digital life. This is the politics of visibility in which we all participate, especially online. We collect fragments of ourselves across roles, qualities, and identities. We juggle them, though at times they resist coherence.

On stage, Núria Guiu Sagarra explores how identity is constructed through images, emotions, myths, markets, and the structural pressure to be noticed in an oversaturated world. She presents the body not as an immutable truth, but as an archive in a state of flux. It is constantly rewritten and supplemented by the gazes that cross it. Through parody and exaggeration, the work uses the language of digital hyper-expressiveness as a tool to critique the contradictions of display, control, and affect in the digital age.

Drawing from a visual archive ranging from 19th-century hysteria to social media memes, mythology, and references to pop culture, Núria Guiu Sagarra combines words, images, and physical presence. The performance unfolds as a witty and playful lecture-performance in which poses, gestures, and images collide, revealing how perception is formed in a hypervisual culture marked by excess and oversaturation.

In an environment where images circulate endlessly, POINT OF VIEW reflects on the tension between what is shown and what is experienced. Is the selfie a product of vanity and narcissism? Or is it a self-portrait of a shifting identity that attempts to discover, piece together, or dissolve itself in this fragmented, hypervisual world? Through humor, precision, and vulnerability, the work opens up spaces of perception beyond the image of the woman, the artist, the stranger, the distant and the near, and the self.

POV explores how the gaze and language shape the way bodies are perceived. Drawing from a visual archive on hysteria, social-media meme culture, mythology and pop references, Núria Guiu weaves together words, images and physical presence. The piece unfolds as a sharp and playful lecture-performance where poses, gestures and images collide, revealing how perception is shaped within a hypervisual culture marked by excess and saturation. 

POV (Point of View), a recurring meme that’s accustomed us to performing different perspectives, putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes. POV brings everyday experiences and repressed emotions (rage, frustration, sadness, anxiety…) into view, staging microdramas that, as Sara Ahmed puts it, go beyond the personal to reveal broader sociocultural structures. - TNT

Núria Guiu Sagarra is a dancer and choreographer based in Barcelona. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between bodies, images, and power dynamics from a personal, sociocultural, and speculative perspective. Her works investigate the complexities of contemporary culture through an anthropological lens, particularly those related to digital environments, memory, and affect. Her creations extend into practices of movement, writing, and teaching derived from this research. Selected works include Supermedium (2024), Medium (2022), Cyberexorcisme (2022), Spiritual Boyfriends (2020), and Likes (2018). Two years ago, she participated in the Visiting Artist Program during the One Dance Festival.