Aline Olmos Steler — The Origin Of the Future
In this fictional divinatory practice, Aline's vaginal discharge becomes an oracular message for us all.
w/ Próximamente
Dirty underwear, biological prophecies, and a new way of seeing the future: Aline Olmos Steler’s performance brings to life a universe of wet clairvoyance and delirious intimacy that teases the viewer with charismatic energy, and yet each time finds a way into the raw essence of human nature.
Even if billions of people produce vaginal discharge every day across the world, it has remained invisible and taboo for as long as we can remember. Olmos Steler’s artistic pursuit starts from there to take place in a museum exhibition, where dirty panties are put in golden frames, and the audience is invited to look into their smudges and interpret their omens.
Inspired by practices such as reading coffee grounds or the lines of a hand, the work invents “Dischargemancy” — a fictional divinatory practice based on reading vaginal discharge stains. On cotton surfaces, images begin to appear: a woman smoking a pipe, a dead duck, a landscape, a ghost.
The more one looks, the more one sees.
It is a performance that moves between theatre, exhibition, and clowning, born from the fear of one day looking at a stain and seeing only a stain.
Marking her first production with KVS Theatre, Aline Olmos Steler presents a work in progress at the Próximamente Festival, showcasing the piece in its final stage of development.
about
Aline Olmos Steler is a Brazilian theater director, clown, and performer based in Brussels. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Performing Arts from UNICAMP (Brazil) and recently completed a second master’s degree at DAS Theatre, Amsterdam. Her artistic practice is guided by accumulation and layering, using chaos, absurdity, and humor as forms of language. Interested in what lies at the margins, her research explores themes such as vaginal discharge, sleep, excrement, female masturbation, the non-sexualized vulva, and piracy. Moving between popular theater, clowning, and post-dramatic theater, her works often embrace a DIY aesthetic built from household materials, questioning who gets to be an artist and who gets to be an audience in late capitalism. Since 2019, she has co-directed the collective ultraVioleta_s in Brazil. She is a resident artist at Right About Now INC. (Netherlands, 2025–2026), has the support of Mestizo Arts Platform (Belgium), and is part of KVS Faces artists (Brussels, 2027–2031). Aline is currently developing the show The Origin of the Future (premiere in 2027).
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Próximamente Festival showcases artists from Latin America and its diasporas in an invitation to spark conversation with Brussels’ artists. Próximamente, which translates to "soon" or "coming soon," embodies not only the anticipation of what's to come but also the closeness and connection it fosters.
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70min
in English
no surtitles
+2, PMR-accessible space and PMR-accessible toilet via the elevator accompanied by someone with a building access badge (ask at reception)
Conception and Direction Aline Olmos Steler Dramaturgy Mahsa Koochak and Laíza Dantas Performers Aline Olmos Steler, Laíza Dantas, and Mahsa Koochak Set design Renan Marcondes Lighting design Gabriele Souza Sound design Bartira Costume design Amanda Hedman Hagerstrom Playwright concept, revision and final version Aline Olmos Steler, Joachim Robbrecht, and Mahsa Koochak; with collaborations of Billy Mullaney for the Curator text, and written together with Carolina Nóbrega with excerpts from The Egg and the Hen by Clarice Lispector for the egg dialogue Creative Production Manager Laíza Dantas Produced by KVS Theater Support of Mestizo Art Platform, RIGHTABOUTNOW INC
Thanks to the artists and creative provocateurs who contributed to this process during its earlier stages: Tetembua Dandara, Paula Mirhan, Carolina Nóbrega, Giovanna Kelly, Leandro Souza, Charlissa Feller, Pero Manzé, Nahuel Cano, Billy Mullaney, Gabriela Fernandes, Marta Keil, Ingrid Vranken, Maarten van Hinte, and special thanks to Marjorie Boston Marjorie Boston for the support and enthusiasm.
image 2 © Tim Mai Tan
image 3 © Victoriano Moreno
image © Gabi Fernandes
image © Renan Marcondes
