THE DOLL IS THE ETERNAL STRANGER, (UFERSTUDIOS, BERLIN, GERMANY AUGUST 2022)

Inspired by Kliest’s essay Über Das Marionettentheater and Rilke’s Fourth Duino Elegy, this piece is an attempt at reconciling childhood reality with the fantasy adult constructions of the world. When our efforts to ignite our own life into the lifeless fail, we are faced with our mortality and materiality. Puppets and angels, are not so different. Getting closer to the blurry line of material reality and imagined reality. There is a mysterious string binding animate and inanimate, passivity and agency. Consciousness disturbs natural grace, coming of age is the fall from paradise.