Photo credits: Luis Lecea, MWA Hart Nibbrig
Scenography Project for Graduation Show 2020 of Critical Studies, Sandberg Institute at Het HEM, Amsterdam (NL). The Heretofore stage domesticates and inhabits the exhibition space’s skeletal structure through the ritualistic act of ‘laundry hanging’. Through the materiality of the fabric, the apparitions envelop the space with intimacy and care, while being an ephemeral structure that allows for hybridity and transformation. In one way, by manifesting ‘the laundry’ and the proximate accumulation of fabrics, the deed becomes an analogy to vulnerability. The release of the guard through the malleableness and the allegorical significance of the material draws a line to the state of intimacy. To reach it, the act of ‘opening-up’, and to allow oneself to become exposed or even lightly veiled, is essential to the scenography. Design team: Johanna Seelemann, Aleksandra Zawistowska, Emilie Bordes, Luis Lecea, Matteo Viviano, Pam Virada, Stefan Meyer, Stefania Rigioni, Yon Matauko, Natasha Krebs.
2020
