Mount A
Fuga
Arie
Dama-scena
Where there is smoke
Flowery years
when we were where that is (monday)
when we were where that is (tuesday)
is an enchanting thing
Prologos
Tacit and Kinema
ninajonssonqi@gmail.com
Video, color, sound, 2’15”
A stage backdrop from Franz Schreker’s Der ferne Klang is raised during technical rehearsals at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. Removed from the moment of performance, the landscape stands in suspension, a fragment of illusion without a spectacle. Alongside it, a recording captures the orchestra preparing for Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker: overlapping lines, tentative gestures, fragments of rehearsal that never cohere into the ballet itself.
These elements converge in a former monastery, now a cultural center in Naples. Within this space, shaped by overlapping histories, from monastery to cultural center, they form the prologue to a new spectacle: one built from displacement, incompletion, and the contingent construction of reality.
Prologos (backstage), 2019, C-print, 70 x 100 cm