The land of no curtains is an immersive installation somewhere between theatre of gesture, visual arts and cinema. It invites the spectator to move through a set of large and small houses whose windows are open to the gaze and curiosity, revealing absurd and poetic scenes from everyday life.
We become silent witnesses to the habits and intimate moments that play out in these interiors. But as is often the case, appearances can mask hidden, ghostly realities.
"You enter a dark space, in which a world of miniature houses floats. You move closer and pass a window. In his kitchen, a man is watering his flowers with his own tears. Further on, a strange karaoke scene is being played out in the privacy of a bathroom. Inside these homes, so many micro-tributes in search of solutions to the tasks, struggles and pains of everyday life."
Lunatics and Poets uses holographic video, objects and the body to embody the desires, hopes and dreams of a society, but also its deepest fears.
A dancer interferes at the heart of the installation, like a guide or a spectre from an imaginary world.
Part installation, part performance, The land of no curtains highlights the theme of the home as a space that is both protective and vulnerable, revealing the duality and fragile beauty of our lives, between darkness and lightness.
When the public enters the installation, they discover a magical setting of wooden houses (approximately 75 cm high), suspended from the ceiling and individually lit. Decorated with textiles and fine embroidery, they hang in plain sight.
In The land of no curtains, the image is the starting point: a city full of loose lives through which the audience can move and look around. Through the windows of these houses, the imaginary and intimate spheres of our daily lives are revealed. These scenes are short 3D films shown on holographic screens (Looking Glass) built into the houses.
By using several disciplines - film, sound, dance and fashion - and combining craft and digital devices, the visual experience is enhanced and made sensory. The installation takes us along windows behind which each person tries to cope with life in his or her own way - recognisable, yet at the same time poetic and surreal.
At regular intervals, a performative intervention takes place and a dancer finds herself under the floating city.
