A Portuguese man visits the town of Beirut year after year. He’s several people who are always the same; several men that year after year walk the same path throughout one day, in the centre of Beirut. The city changes; it metamorphasises at the mercy of time’s erosion and history’s convulsions. This man never changes, but lives different days each visit – the days that the ever-changing city allows him to live.
This performance emerges from the supposition that in each city there’s another city, an underground city, and that underneath that city there is another and another, in an endless number of hidden cities that time reveals in the most unexpected of ways. These underground cities are at once both the past and future; they are all that no longer exists or does not yet exist in the present.
Mundo Perfeito translated into English means “perfect world”. The group’s based in the setting of a kitchen in a small apartment in Amadora, a city in the suburbs of Lisbon. Mundo Perfeito is recognized by the quality of its work and a constant drive towards innovation.
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