A DAY IN THE STUDIO
Live performance (30min), RCA (MA) Visual
Communication
Final Project, 2025

This performance explores how humor can be a powerful tool for navigating personal struggles and making sense of life’s challenges.

Drawing from personal experiences - an ongoing struggle with feelings of success and failure - i retell my stories, transforming them into moments of laughter and reflection by seeking out their humorous perspective.

It is a series of tiny revolutions with the aim to inspire others, through the use of humor, to reflect on how things always depend on a point of view. 





Live Performance




Opening night performance  



Performance on other days,
at the exhibition  


More about the narrative


In a day in the studio, Inês - myself played by myself, because really, who else could do a worse or better job at being me? - arrives at her desk to rehearse what she believes is her finished master’s project: a funny play about success and failure, inspired by her own life.

But there’s a catch. As the rehearsal unfolds, she’s forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: could it be that her play about failure… is itself a failure?

Determined to see it through, Inês continues, facing her own work head-on. Failure becomes unavoidable - but also strangely funny.

From not-award-winning writer and performer, A Day in the Studio explores the pressure for constant success, the inevitability of mistakes, and how humour can offer us the perspective to carry on.