Te Ara Moana Moves
I Costume for II
Tales Frey
About the work
I Traje para II by Tales Frey explores the expressive possibilities of clothing, creating forms that move beyond conventional binaries and challenge the limits of the human body. The work blurs the line between dance and sculpture, presenting garments as dynamic, transformative objects that expand and distort the body, offering unexpected shapes and silhouettes. Through movement and materiality, Frey investigates identity, embodiment, and the performative potential of costume, inviting audiences to reconsider how clothing, gesture, and space interact to create forms that resist easy categorisation and open new possibilities for expression.
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About the artist
Tales Frey
Porto, Portugal
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Tales Frey is a transdisciplinary artist represented by Galeria Verve in São Paulo, Brazil, and Shame Gallery in Brussels, Belgium. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Humanistic Studies, University of Minho, Portugal, and works as an Assistant Researcher through the Scientific Employment Stimulus – Institutional Program (Contract-Program between FCT and the University of Minho).
He holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Coimbra, a Master’s degree in Art Theory and Criticism, and a specialization in Contemporary Artistic Practices from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Directing from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Tales Frey’s work investigates identity, embodiment, and the performative possibilities of costume, movement, and material form.