With this series of works made with over 6,000 theatre brochures, I explore the subject of formal rehearsal, self-presentation and transformation.

 

"...Speaking, reciting, and walking on stage are the outlet for a state of emergency, just as folding, assembling, and composing a painting are. The work of art, like the play, is meant to be seen as the result of a stripping bare and releasing of emotions. The source of the performance or the painting is intimate and sublimates itself into an object visible to all..."

 

"...In the work, as in the play, everything is transformation. What exists in a given form—the actor and the playbill—is interpreted and reinterpreted in a new form—the character in the play and the small pieces in the picture. The work of the artist, like that of the director and the actor, determines the final form of the basic material. An individual becomes a character; booklets become flowers or circles like carousels.

 

The final result is born from the decision of the one who appropriates the material. The work and the character could have been different, if the artist or the actor had been different...