ORSOLYA
ÉTUDES FROM AN INNER GARDEN
05-08 2020
During the lockdown in 2020, when having access to a garden proved to be a luxury, the project with plants evolved into an experimental short called “Études from an inner garden”, a video documentation of a 100 square meter garden in the center of Cluj Napoca, Romania. Based on the project “Photos of a secret garden”, using the same technique of the paper filter, the intention with this new approach was to create a story with plants in motion, in a city which has known an incredibly fast real estate development in the last 10 years, witnessing a moment of crisis in the present, while trying to rediscuss and reevaluate new and old value systems, our relation with the natural and man-made world.
Taking advantage of her experience in puppetry the author decided to work with plants in the way she does it with puppets. The puppet operates “in the collapsed boundaries between the living and the inanimate”, so “Études from an inner garden” invites the viewer to suspend these boundaries and reestablish a relation based on empathy and sympathy towards the material and natural world - in this case the world of plants. It could be a first step on the way to a less divided world where erasing the dichotomies between animate and inanimate could lead to a more responsible attitude regarding human actions.
The project includes the observation and manipulation of plants, with the desire of creating a multidisciplinary work, involving fine arts and narrative in movement.
“Etudes from an inner garden” participated at the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival in September 2020, at the Fuori Formato Festival Internazionale di Danza at Torino in 2021 September, at the group exhibition "Rerouting" in the gallery Contemporary Calgary and Oodaaq Festival in Rennes, France in 2022.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/829741252
Press: https://www.locacritica.com/storieswedance2021
Taking advantage of her experience in puppetry the author decided to work with plants in the way she does it with puppets. The puppet operates “in the collapsed boundaries between the living and the inanimate”, so “Études from an inner garden” invites the viewer to suspend these boundaries and reestablish a relation based on empathy and sympathy towards the material and natural world - in this case the world of plants. It could be a first step on the way to a less divided world where erasing the dichotomies between animate and inanimate could lead to a more responsible attitude regarding human actions.
The project includes the observation and manipulation of plants, with the desire of creating a multidisciplinary work, involving fine arts and narrative in movement.
“Etudes from an inner garden” participated at the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival in September 2020, at the Fuori Formato Festival Internazionale di Danza at Torino in 2021 September, at the group exhibition "Rerouting" in the gallery Contemporary Calgary and Oodaaq Festival in Rennes, France in 2022.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/829741252
Press: https://www.locacritica.com/storieswedance2021