The director’s word
Over the years, I’ve noticed that I’m attracted to things that, for one reason or another, seem to resist being named. Things that are difficult to describe accurately. Things that are too special, abstract or obvious to be described in words. I’m interested in all of that. As an artist, I try to bring these anonymous moments to the stage as they are, without any explanation. The audience then has the opportunity to experience things in the same way as me. I think it’s interesting to see if others react to these moments and if so, in what way, what their interpretation is.
In my opinion, the composition of the performance must escape linearity and the feeling that the passage of time is just a naturally flowing flow. That’s why my work is based on photographs, paintings and frozen poses. I group the material I have collected into a multifaceted, strange group; Something that, despite its strangeness, reminds me of the brutality of life and at the same time of what the state of our humanity is. I exist as a subject among these endless stories that happen simultaneously in the present. Despite my own, subjectively limited perspectives, and my constant effort to limit life to something that I hope can be controlled by my reason, moments of existence manifest in an extremely strange way, taking on absurd and yet touching forms.
The reality I seek is often overwhelming and incomprehensible. Still, it awakens in me (and hopefully in the audience) unconditional empathy, through which it is possible for me to enter a meditative state. In that state, reality with its different manifestations is somehow more present.
Instructor Ene-Liis Semper