clair obscur

The hall transforms into a bifurcated stage space. The two sides face each other, like two sides of the same coin, like light and shadow, like day and night – one cannot exist without the other, and so this work is composed: the two perspectives are inseparable and yet perceivable on their own.


»See how this body casts its shadow and how dreams are born from it.« Henri Bosco


Who hasn’t tried to catch their shadow while walking? Who hasn’t marveled at this strange apparition that constantly accompanies us, but always slips away? From Plato’s »Allegory of the Cave« to Carl Gustav Jung’s »Analytical Psychology« to the dream world of every human being, the shadow veils and reveals the secrets of the world.


But there are also shadows that conceal our very existence. They unfold, act, and live in silence. Shadows can have many names… they appear around the corner, in the unexpected, and suddenly take hold of us. Shadow sides that dwell within us and that we carry with us. Shadows that arise, full of doubt, full of illusions. They reach through our senses into the visible world and take possession in impermanence.

»In these shadow phases I am unable to think, to feel, to love.« Fernando Pessoa