Carlos Azeredo Mesquita ~ Everything. Again and again. Forever. Everything. Again. Forever. Please? Everything. Again. Forever. Please. I think

“It all started with a pair of trousers that were a bit too tight and men's bulges on a secondhand clothing app. Then bits of the Virgin Mary's tunic, men lusting over Renaissance kings, Greek gods on shower curtains, emojis at midnight, and a song that gives me goosebumps. 

Something kept returning. A feeling of desire, a suspicion that what I was seeing wasn't really new. I decided to follow that hunch.

It took me deep into my body and my personal cosmology. What the body recognizes that the mind has been trained to ignore. Pleasure as a way of knowing. History not moving forward but folding, leaking, living right here. For me, recurrence is not defeat, it's the reason to keep going. My attempt to live fully, with joy, resistance, and contradiction.  

This is the third and final part of a lecture-performance triptych. And my first time working solo and entirely from the inside out.”

Carlos Azeredo Mesquita's Everything. Again and again. Forever. Everything. Again. Forever. Please? Everything. Again. Forever. Please. I think will be presented to a live audience at Centrale Fies (Dro, Italy) on June 19, 2026 as one of 41 acts curated by Elisa Giuliano for the AEROPONIC ACTS 2026: DAWN SEEDS, convened by Gabriëlle Schleijpen for the Dutch Art Institute.

For those unable to attend in person, this page will host future video documentation by Baha Görkem Yalım alongside a written report by Saverio Cantoni. The report will feature summarized reflections from guest respondents Adam Hajyahia, Antonia Majaca, and Zairong Xiang, who will vibe with the question: “Would you do it all again?”

We look forward to welcoming you in person to Dro!