Ika Schwander | è vero è vero è vero

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Ika Schwander (Belgium) è vero è vero è vero08. May. 2024 20:00

THEATER | PERFORMANCE

"It's true, it's true, it's true." The 17-year-old painter Artemisia Gentileschi is said to have shouted these words in court in 1612. In the dock: Agostino Tassi. A house friend and teacher. The man who raped her. Gentileschi took revenge for this with a series of paintings, including: "Judith beheading Holofernes". Her interpretation of the Old Testament myth, in which she rolls the head of her own tormentor. The performance debut È VERO È VERO È VERO by Dutch-French artist Ika Schwander begins with a visual contemplation. And broadens the view of how abuse and sexual violence are dealt with in pop culture. From Peggy Lee's "That's what a woman is for" to Sinead O'Connor's "Troy". Schwander - who has already worked with Jan Decorte and Sigrid Vinks (NIE WERDE ICH DEN TOD VERGESSEN) - shows the traumas that are burned into the body. Asks about the possibilities of resistance. And of love.

60min, without intermission

Concept, text, design and film Ika Schwander Performance Oumar Dicko/Manuel Groothuysen, Ika Schwander Artistic direction Lies Pauwels Photos Anna Perger, Bart Grietens Mediation Vincent Company / PARTIE Production Festival Cement in co-production with Via Zuid