Social Fictions

Social fictions operate as speculative frameworks through which collective realities are mirrored, distorted, and reimagined. These fictions are not escapist fantasies, but symbolic systems embedded in lived experience — performed, crafted, and enacted in collaboration with diverse communities. Drawing on archetypes, ritual, and material transformation, Mota constructs imaginary worlds that metabolize real social tensions, from invisibility and ecological collapse to grief, labor, and femininity.Through recurring characters such as the Crystal Beings, Widows, Five Old Ladies, and Seagulls, Mota stages alternate realities that challenge dominant cultural narratives. These figures are not simply costumes or theatrical devices; they function as living vessels for unresolved questions within the social body. They appear across contexts — in public processions, community workshops, exhibition spaces, and urban interventions — each time reshaped by those who activate them.Rather than illustrating social critique, Mota’s fictions perform it. They are participatory, often modular, and evolve through iterative cycles of performance, material residue, sculptural reconfiguration, and collective ritual. In this process, fiction becomes a social technology — one that proposes, tests, and rehearses new modes of being together.