Quotations from a ruined city
fluent•Oct 03, 2024 — Dec 22, 2024
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Quotations from a ruined city is the title of the last theatre play produced by late Iranian playwright, Reza Abdoh (1963–1995).
This exhibition takes such work as a case of study, to reflect on the violent political realities of his (and our) time. The performance centers around two male couples: the first one is a pair of gay men, shattered and sometimes shattering each other. The second couple wanders across history, starting out dressed as Puritans and ending up as modern businessmen. The play is fragmented and relies on the repetition of images and text –a recurrent formal resource in Reza’s language–. Many of these juxtapositions, collages and repetitions can also be traced through the exhibition’s spatial and narrative tactics, as a means for both insistence and confusion.
Over a career that spanned twelve years, Abdoh developed an aesthetic grammar where mythology, music clips, fairy tales, BDSM, rave culture, religion and avant– garde theatre merged,...More
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Quotations from a ruined city
fluent•Oct 03, 2024 — Dec 22, 2024
Press Release
Quotations from a ruined city is the title of the last theatre play produced by late Iranian playwright, Reza Abdoh (1963–1995).
This exhibition takes such work as a case of study, to reflect on the violent political realities of his (and our) time. The performance centers around two male couples: the first one is a pair of gay men, shattered and sometimes shattering each other. The second couple wanders across history, starting out dressed as Puritans and ending up as modern businessmen. The play is fragmented and relies on the repetition of images and text –a recurrent formal resource in Reza’s language–. Many of these juxtapositions, collages and repetitions can also be traced through the exhibition’s spatial and narrative tactics, as a means for both insistence and confusion.
Over a career that spanned twelve years, Abdoh developed an aesthetic grammar where mythology, music clips, fairy tales, BDSM, rave culture, religion and avant– garde theatre merged,...More