The artist’s body is offered as a living altar, offered as a moment for reflection, meditation, prayer, request, not for a god or any of the saints, but rather for the world.
Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer (BE)
In Christianity, to light a candle means to open one’s heart to God and thus raise a prayer to him in Heaven. It equally means expressing one’s devotion to a particular saint, of making a request or offering thanks. An offering accompanies this process.
Here, however, this offertory ritual is proposed as a means of expressing our concerns, fears and sorrow for the world, as a way of dealing with the environmental despair we are currently experiencing. This performance is inspired both by Barbara Salomé Felgenheimer’s rituals in women’s circles to celebrate the solstices and equinoxes, and by Joanna Macy’s essay, “Working Through Environmental Despair” which poses the question, “Can we acknowledge our grief for the world and yet live with it in such a way that affirms our existence and liberates our power to act?”
Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer graduated from the photography atelier at ESA Saint-Luc in Liège (2013) and from ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels (2022). She won the Boghossian Foundation Prize in 2022 with her project Terrapolis. Her work has been exhibited in Belgium (Galerie Satellite/BIP Liège, Hangar Art Center, BPS22, Pianofabriek, Espace Vanderborght), in France (FRAC Franche-Comté, Voies Off des Rencontres Arles, Promenade photographique de Vendôme) and in Italy (L’Asilo Napoli).
In collaboration with Léna Babinet.
VIDEO (Camille Meynard)
Infos
| DATE | CONTENU |
|---|---|
| 2023/04/201800 |
20.04.2023 18:00 > 20:30 Studio Thor (cave), Brussels Réservations |
| 2023/04/211800 |
21.04.2023 18:00 > 20:30 Studio Thor (cave), Brussels Réservations |
| 2023/04/221600 |
22.04.2023 16:00 > 18:30 Studio Thor (cave), Brussels Réservations |
From 5 to 10′
Limited number of places
Advance booking required, waiting list on site
As part of ESCALATOR – the festival’s new section devoted to recently graduated young artists.
With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Brussels Promotion).