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Paquito Nogales
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Nogales, Francisco J
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02-06-2025
From an early age he was drawn to the arts and especially to the movement arts. In his youth he studied modern/jazz dance and the Martha Graham method. He practised body expression as a means of body research and mime, and acted and danced as a professional in children's theatre.
Personal crises cause him to abandon his career at the age of 27.
Impacted by a performance by Angels Ribé in 1993, he trained in Barcelona in the early 2000s in action art with Carlos Pina and Maria Cosmes. With the directors of Ebent, the Barcelona International Performance Festival, he began his career as a performer at an international level, using all the body knowledge he had previously acquired.
In 2022 he ended his artistic practice. Throughout his career he has worked on the pain intrinsic to living, masculinity and dissident sexualities of heteronorma from a critical and feminist perspective. Formally, he has been interested in practices that push the limits of bodily possibilities. He has questioned the exclusivity of medicine and doctors to puncture, insert objects and extract fluids. He only does performances as activism and in collaborations for friends.
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