Installation with HD, format 32 x 9, 21 min, 2024-ongoing 

Performance: Jimmy Robert, Werner Hirsch, Julie Cunningham, Trajal Harrell, Aérea Negrot, Klara Líden, Peaches, Ming Wong. 

This ongoing project features so far eight choreographers, artists, and musicians. Each enters the scene against the backdrop of a giant black faux leather curtain, arriving at a simple chair to perform a portrait. The artists experiment with ways of appearing in front of a camera.

Do we see a person performing feelings or a performer's personal feelings? Do we see a person’s gestures or a performer’s movements?

Mobilizing lessons from queer underground performances, the portraits’ (in)visibilities undermine the distinction between performing and being, between props and bodies. Glamorous and vulnerable, silent yet unapologetic, the moving portraits show a glimpse of a radical difference that resists description.

Directors of photography: Bernadette Paassen, Siri Klug
Sound: Johanna Wienert
Costume for Werner Hirsch: Heloise Mantel
Stage production: Wibke Tiarks
Sound design: Rashad Becker
Colour grading: Waveline