The Silence

Three characters are taking part in a confrontation, where language fails to communicate anything at all and to resolve the complexity of their relations. A hotel room hosts this moment. The project interrogates the relation between space, time and narrative through a transposition into real space and time of a sequence from Ingmar Bergman's film. With the participation of two actors and a non-professional actor, the film sequence is freely reconstructed as an installation piece.
This round-like space had been, initially, imaginatively suggested and subsequently found its analogue in the well-known Melnikov residence in Moscow. I seek to explore further the bewilderment felt by one walking around that house, the feeling that one walks in circles while walled in, a feeling that objects and persons are a déjà vu. The project was first presented within the context of a theatrical institution. The collaboration with actors and the dependence on the theatre's structures and mechanisms pose an additional challenge in the effort to delineate the autonomy of each art form and each art work.
How to build time? That which cannot be spoken, yet is in language. That which cannot appear, yet leaves traces behind. From these absent fragments a space may appear and be grasped.