RIDING ON A CLOUD
OPENING PERFORMANCE CPH STAGE
Images; one disappears and another shows up. Most of the time, he doesn’t understand the connection between the image and the one next to it. He needs someone who knows him well to tell him about it and set the image in motion, so it’s not still anymore. When memories are like still images with no connection to he past, how does the memory work?
In RIDING ON A CLOUD the acclaimed Libanese artist Rabih Mroué invites his brother Yasser to play the role of a character who resembles him personally. A person, who was injured in the Lebanese civil war and lost his ability to understand and use words. As part of his recovery, Yasser began to shoot videos. His recordings fuse with his recounted memories on stage and form a subjective picture of the political developments in Lebanon. RIDING ON A CLOUD describes the fragile construction of biography emerging somewhere between political reality, memories, facts and fiction. For Mroué this is always the starting point for artistic self-reflection.
RIDING ON A CLOUD
OPENING PERFORMANCE CPH STAGE
Images; one disappears and another shows up. Most of the time, he doesn’t understand the connection between the image and the one next to it. He needs someone who knows him well to tell him about it and set the image in motion, so it’s not still anymore. When memories are like still images with no connection to he past, how does the memory work?
In RIDING ON A CLOUD the acclaimed Libanese artist Rabih Mroué invites his brother Yasser to play the role of a character who resembles him personally. A person, who was injured in the Lebanese civil war and lost his ability to understand and use words. As part of his recovery, Yasser began to shoot videos. His recordings fuse with his recounted memories on stage and form a subjective picture of the political developments in Lebanon. RIDING ON A CLOUD describes the fragile construction of biography emerging somewhere between political reality, memories, facts and fiction. For Mroué this is always the starting point for artistic self-reflection.