Eva Quantica

Eva Quantica is an interactive virtual reality dance piece for the Oculus Quest created by Maf’j Alvarez about female identity in a lockdown bubble - a dreamlike, painterly open world to explore Eve and her multiple selves. In this surreal new reality, whether you’re small like a cat, big like a statue, whether it’s early morning or late evening, you’ll see things differently and you’ll only see what you want to see. The red lifeforce flows through everything, dead or alive, old and new. Eva Quantica is about female power, patriarchy, immigration, tradition and obligation. She explores technology as an agent of power for women and its consequences and wants to challenge the rules that always apply. She wants to tell women that they have a place in the making of a new technological future where they can encode their own reality. http://www.limbicfish.net/eva-quantica

Commissioned by the National Gallery, London, as part of National Gallery X and Audience Labs at the Royal Opera House in March 2021 Supported by King’s College London Inspiration from Crivelli’s Gardens, by Paula Rego and using the motion capture data of Eve, choreographed by Kristen McNally