Sideshow, 2019

installation view, Bozar, Brussels, 2020, with “When You Whistle, It Makes Air Come Out”, on the left

installation view, Bozar, Brussels, 2020, with “When You Whistle, It Makes Air Come Out”, on the right

installation view, Bozar, Brussels, 2020

installation view, Bozar, Brussels, 2020, with “When You Whistle, It Makes Air Come Out”, on the left and “Echo’s Bones/Were Turned To Stone” on the right

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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

Produced by vzw NN with the support of the Flemish authorities