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Sideshow, 2019

installation view, Bozar, Brussels, 2020
installation view, Bozar, Brussels, 2020, with “Echo’s Bones/Were Turned to Stone” in the foreground
installation view, Bozar, Brussels, 2020, with “Echo’s Bones/Were Turned to Stone” in the foreground
installation view, Bozar, Brussels, 2020, with “Echo’s Bones/Were Turned to Stone” in the foreground
installation view, Bozar, Brussels, 2020, with “Echo’s Bones/Were Turned to Stone” on the right and “When You Whistle, it Makes Air Come Out” in the foreground, left
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In Sideshow a series of disguised figures, including a geisha, a clown, bird people and an illusionist with big hands, appear and disappear against an abstract backdrop with multicoloured light. In the cinematic images, recorded in stop-motion with various performers, Ana Torfs returns to a few old favourites: theatre, silent film, masquerade, puppet theatre, butoh, circus, and cabaret. The parade is at once macabre, moving, terrifying and comical.

HD projection (16:9), stop motion photography, custom-made screen, colour, silent, 39’, loop, dimensions variable

With Anneleen Keppens, Kayoko Minami, Gustavo Miranda, Jurgen Persijn and Jaklien Torfs-Onzia

The creation of this work has been made possible with the support of the Flemish authorities

Special thanks to vzw NN, executive producer