Dreaming in Blue
2023 Video, 35 minutes
Fake fur, couch, thread
This work is a re-interpretation of the 19th century tradition of the tableau vivant, a form of live theatre that can be seen as a breathing still life. No movement can be discerned except for the breath of the performers and the trickles of sweat dripping from their brows. Even if you know there are performers right in front of you, you are deceived by the stillness of their performance. This creates a magical moment, a shift of perception in which an uncanny realm is accessed that unsettles the borders between performer and sculpture. This stillness resists the tendency of our everyday reality to speed up, to always be faster and more efficient. It rather opposes this speed by being as slow as possible. Finding comfort in this extreme slowness becomes something in and of itself horrific as this rhythm that grows into something unnatural.
Generously supported by Pictoright Steunfonds Startende Makers 2022.
