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Quédate Conmigo is a title and it is a plea.
Or a plain request.
Or an imperative.
It also gives its name to all the pieces that make up this debut work by the multifaceted artist Maru Ulivi.
An inevitable question arises: to whom are these two words addressed? Each of us could appropriate them out of a desire for someone to stay by our side.
Stay. Request for closeness. Proximity of the bodies.
The curious thing is that this request, order or plea, operates in a different way when it is pronounced by Maru. The artist implores herself to “stay with me”, provoking a withdrawal into her own …