BIAF
Untitled (and in its defeat, stirs)
Pantalica
Where there is smoke
Tulips & Chimneys
Speech is Light
Arie
Fuga
Untitled (May–June)
insu nli gh t
Flowery years
when we were where that is (monday)
is an enchanted thing
Prologos
Tacit and Kinema
ninajonssonqi@gmail.com
Prologos, 2020
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 sound recording captures the orchestra preparing for Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker: overlapping lines, tentative gestures, fragments of rehearsal that never cohere into the ballet itself. The work delays its image: on each loop, sound leads for 46 seconds, filling the room before the scene appears. The constellation converge in a former monastery, now a cultural center in Naples.
Prologos (backstage), 2019
C-print, 70 x 100 cm