NÁCAR is a performance by Bruno Senune that explores forgetting and the fiction of memory. It is a subjective, autobiographical poem situated in a place of gathering and escape.
From the Arabic naqqára, meaning “drum”, nacre is a hard, iridescent substance produced by certain molluscs that lines the inside of shells. It is also released in response to a foreign body, forming a pearl.
The absence of an archive — photographs, videos, drawings — documenting Senune’s childhood has created a distant, inventive period in his memory, charged with assumptions. Memory thus emerges as a space of energy, storage and evocation, shaped by the interplay of real images, desires, conflicts and projections.
Through the construction and deconstruction of a real and fictional archive, this performance explores places of fragility, travelling between clarity and the indistinct, between the desire to know and the act of letting go. What was, what remains, what throbs, what lives, resists, persists.

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