PRESS
18 January, 2020
Bored Panda
I’m Gaby Muñoz, a 33 years old full time clown living in Mexico City. I’m not a normal kind of clown, I like to tell stories. My stories are simple and soulful and based on either real life passages or dreams. To me clowns are poets, inventors, philosophers. They will throw themselves to the abyss without wings, hoping to build them on the way down! Clowns tell epic stories as heroes that can lose everything but might also win the whole world embarrassing their own stupidity, vulnerability and heart.
I started communicating with sounds more than words when I was a kid. I remember my father filming silent movies and me together with sister staring dressed with my moms clothes. He would write the script and then interview us, I was never able to say a word just funny sounds that made my dad laugh.
I feel I’m myself and love exploring physical details that bring me to a more innocent and subtle place. I propose through clowning, that others may find that sensation of just wanting to laugh because your body wants more than intellectual jokes. It’s talking about the fragility of life that makes us vulnerable and therefore we laugh.
The best part of making people laugh is that you feel a collective string of love, you feel part of something bigger, an impulse that reminds us that we are alive and that we feel intensely.
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